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Re:Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the... by bogomipz on Thursday June 08, 2017 @08:40PM (#14518376)
>"ProtonMail encrypts your email storage in an end-to-end manner for client access and storage."

Is this just TLS + block level encryption like LUKS? If so I would be surprised if FastMail wasn't offering the same. But maybe Proton is offering something else at the client level? It was my impression that the big differentiator was Proton Mail's infrastructure was all co-located in Switzerland.

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Re:Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday June 08, 2017 @09:56PM (#14518682)
From my understanding, there is no way for ProtonMail's operators to decrypt your mail storage, it requires your own private key. Whereas FastMail is not much different from Gmail in terms of "company's access", except it's privacy policy prohibits it from using it for anything but customer service on request.
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Re:Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the... by bogomipz on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:06PM (#14518716)
I see, thank for the clarification.
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