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Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

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Proton Pass is open source and has now passed an independent security audit (proton.me)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nelizea to c/protonprivacy

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Hey,

Proton Pass is open source and has now passed an independent security audit (by Cure53). The Android and iOS apps source code can be found here, the browser extensions source code for Firefox and Chrome-based browsers (including Edge) can be found here.

Proton has also completed an independent security audit conducted by Cure53 for all Proton Pass applications and browser extensions, along with the Proton API. This was a “white box” audit, meaning the security researchers were given full access to the Proton Pass source code, along with full access to Proton Pass engineers.

More information can be found in the blog post over here. The audit report can also be found in the blog post.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What benefits do the apps have over the browser extensions? ProtonVPN has a Linux package at least.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is zero support for drive under Linux which is the major reason I haven't migrated my workspace org yet. I'd like to ditch Google, but I automate backups with rclone to gdrive and that workflow can't currently be replicated under proton

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought Proton doesn't have a drive app for any platform. The WebUI is the only way to use it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've released a Windows app and Mac OS is in beta. Linux is not happening anytime soon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah darn. I had believed it would be arriving later this year.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The official ProtonVPN app on Linux has a lot of problems, like a memory leak that exists since years now. At least for me, only the cli without graphical interface works (but does so very well after some tinkering). The lack of Linux support (especially no Linux app for the drive) has frustrated me to the point I am regularly questioning my Unlimited subscription. But I agree in general, you can get around a lot of the Linux limitations by using browser extensions like the ProtonVPN one. And overall the addition of new services and great security outweighs the lack of Linux support.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's very unfortunate about the Drive app. I just configure OpenVPN on my Linux servers.