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[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -5 points 9 months ago

oh? i have friends that use protonmail and i've asked them to do it. no one has succeeded yet

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Yep, it just has you set a password, confirm it, and even set a hint if you want. Works on web or mobile.

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -1 points 9 months ago

you're talking about sending a link to a password protected message?

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Yes, there's no other implementation I know of for provider-to-provider encrypted email. O365 is very similar. Recipients can then reply back too and the Proton user receives it directly.

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 2 points 9 months ago
[-] naticus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ah yes, forgot about PGP. Haven't used it in a long time myself, but Proton automatically creates a PGP signature for you. You can just attach your public key that's already on your account and it'll encrypt your mail. It natively supports PGP/MIME.

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -1 points 9 months ago

you say it like it's simple, but i don't have any friends who have accomplished it

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It was pretty easy when I tested it just a few min ago, yes. Maybe they step the missed was adding your public key to the contact entry for you. As soon as you do that "encrypt" is enabled by default for you.

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