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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)
submitted 7 months ago by RedditEnjoyer to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Proton's mails are encrypted... between proton accounts. Send an email to a hotmail account and bye-bye encryption. Proton does rely on PGP so you can use that if the recipient supports it.

[–] EncryptKeeper 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They mean encrypted at rest. As in, Proton cannot hand over a copy of all your emails to a law enforcement agency, they don’t have access.

This means law enforcement would have to capture an unencrypted email in transit, or obtains your emails from either recipient individually.

[–] Evotech 20 points 7 months ago

Mail stored in proton is encrypted

[–] asdfasdfasdf 12 points 7 months ago

https://proton.me/support/password-protected-emails

A Password-protected Email is an email that requires a password to open it. It’s a way you can send a secure, end-to-end encrypted email to anyone who isn’t on Proton Mail.