![]() ![]() This is kind of surprising even to me and I think will be to less technical users, who are being told that these emails they're sending are encrypted/secure/only readable by the recipient. Even if the email is encrypted, the subject line isn't Suggested change: show an "unlocked" icon if the email won't be encrypted, and a "locked" icon if it will be encrypted. ![]() In my opinion, that locked lock icon doesn't exactly scream "look out - this email is being sent unencrypted!" In short, emails are sent unencrypted by default, which makes sense since you need either the public key of the person you're emailing or need to specify a shared secret that you give the recipient so that s/he can decrypt your email, but most users don't understand that, it's not made clear in the UI, and that's bad :-(.Īnd since users don't see how their sent emails show up on the email services used by the people they're emailing, I wonder how many users think their emails are encrypted when they in fact are not? Except that's not what it means at all unless there's a check next to the lock. ![]() There's a lock symbol visible when an email is being drafted, clearly indicating that it's encrypted and secure. Here are some really obvious annoyances and UX improvements that I think they should make to their Android app and web app. Paid plans support using one's own domain, not just and protonmail.ch One password for logging in, separate password for encrypting/decrypting my emails I just signed up for ProtonMail to try it out. ProtonMail: Quick Review Home Subscribe ProtonMail: Quick Review 17 April 2016 ![]()
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