- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- privacy@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- privacy@lemmy.ca
Proton Mail now supports post-quantum encryption, helping protect new encrypted emails against future quantum threats.
Proton Mail now supports post-quantum encryption, helping protect new encrypted emails against future quantum threats.
Can someone explain what the point is when the email contents are all read by the sender? Everything is already in a database somewhere.
Well, if the other person uses protonmail, your client encrypts the email content before submitting it, which means protonmail can’t read it.
If they do not use protonmail, well, protonmail can. They apparently store the emails after they have been sent encrypted with a key in your account, so they can’t read them afterwards.
About 99% of the world doesn’t use protonmail. What good does it do if your email is stored unecryptes in the recipient’s imbox over on gmail, apple mail, copilot 360, yahoo, yandex, or whatever else?
I can encrypt a message with your public key, and only you can decrypt it. The db will store the encrypted version.
For example.
This is not necessarily what/why they do it, just one example of how asymmetric ciphers can be useful in an email scenario.