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Re:Russia blocks ProtonMail by Koshkin on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:41PM (#22184934)
> A hash of the password could be part of the key

Except when it's not (and the full password is used instead).

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Re:Russia blocks ProtonMail by antpls on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:12PM (#22185883)
After looking at the doc, it seems Protonmail uses GPG and computes the keys on the client device. (So I was wrong in my reply earlier).

However, when you send an unencrypted email with Protonmail, they claim that they encrypt the email at rest, but the claim is not verifiable.

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