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So Protonmail / ProtonVPN is not a good option? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to get rid of my Google dependency and one of those steps was moving over to Protonmail. Now in the past few days i have been picking up signals that even Protonmail is not as clean as it might be.

Does this really impact the privacy of how i use email and so is moving to Protonmail a step forward from Google, or is Protonmail just as bad?

If so, what could be alternatives?

edit:

Some of the alternatives being mentioned in the comments are:

Email:

VPN:

edit 2 (2023):

There seems to be some new activity around this post. At the time of writing the post (2 years ago) there were some stories going as user @UnfortunateShort described in their comment. This made me question the best options available at that moment. Currently i am still a Proton user, using their Mail and Calendar service, and Mullvad for VPN.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

I don't really understand how that does anything to actually add Forward Secrecy. If someone captures all the (encrypted) emails, and then has access to the private key of the receiver, they can decypher the one time key and then decypher the message.

I looked for that before posting the first comment, and found this draft and a few discussion it. But I didn't mention it because it's just a draft, and because of what I said above.

Edit: I noticed it's actually a draft from 2001

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

Yes, first versions are from 2001 and last from 2002. Old as you see.