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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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Yes search is the problem. The sole(?) reason why Tutanota doesn't have search where protonmail does; in that case Tutanota encrypts everything and so searches nothing.
BUT but but, I hear something coming out of research from some academics in India; news of the possibility of searching over encrypted data *without* having to first decrypt. All theory once but now proven? Now if that becomes possible what an interesting world that will be; Will protonmail become redundant? Will Google go bankrupt?