Olivier
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We have given this quite a bit of thought, but at the present moment, it is not clear the advantages would outweigh the disadvantages.
The biggest problem is search. Encrypting all metadata would break metadata search entirely on the web client as there is still no efficient way to handle search of encrypted data within a browser.
Secondly, metadata encryption’s value from a privacy standpoint is also somewhat dubious. Because we ultimately must deliver the message to the recipient, we must know who the recipient is. At the current time, there still isn’t any proven and viable way to work around this.
Metadata encryption is an area of continued research for us, and when the opportunity arises and the technology for doing this matures, we will definitely implement it in ProtonMail.
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Tobias, the problem with this is that it gives away your identity as the people you give it to can figure out what your base e-mail address is. Aliases should enable you to send e-mail from any of your aliases as if they were independent e-mail addresses, without any way for the recipient to tell that this is an alias.
I think it is much more important than using up existing usernames.