However this is all on you, so if you forget where you stored your recovery phrase, or you never set one up to begin with, you could be in trouble! What I like About ProtonMail It’s not actually as bad as it sounds because ProtonMail provides you with several ways to regain access to your account and a couple of ways to regain access to your data, the easiest of which is a recovery phrase. This is fantastic from a data privacy point of view however I should point out that there is one major drawback of all this which is that if you forget your password there is no way for ProtonMail give you access to your old emails or reset your account password. This makes it impossible for ProtonMail to access your data no matter what requests or legal demands they may receive, it also means that even if someone got physical access to ProtonMail’s servers or if data was leaked in a hack that all anyone would be able to get would be the encrypted data. Not only is your data encrypted but ProtonMail don’t have the keys. ProtonMail does allow you to use PGP with external contacts however this is not as easy and will require a bit more technical knowhow on the part of the receiver. If you want to send an encrypted message to a user outside the ProtonMail network ProtonMail also makes this easy, however you will need to give them a password in advance so that they can use to open the message. ProtonMail uses end-to-end encryption which means it encrypts your email when it’s in transit to and from your device and the ProtonMail servers, in fact, if the email is being sent to another ProtonMail user it remains encrypted throughout the entire journey. One of the biggest issues with email as it currently stands is that it lacks encryption, everything is sent in plain text and any server that handles your mail on it’s journey across the internet can read it. Finally it provides a clean and modern user interface from which you can access and manage your email.
The company is based in Switzerland due to their robust data privacy laws and spends a great deal of time and money championing the cause of data privacy internationally.
The main goal of ProtonMail is to protect its users privacy, to that end it utilises both end-to-end encryption and zero access encryption, provides a free secure VPN, calendar, and online storage. Launched back in 2014, ProtonMail is an encrypted email provider founded by former CERN scientists.
0 kommentar(er)
