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A comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail. Parent comment

Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail by freeopinion on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @04:21PM (#43837597)
Would you care to remind everybody how they can guarantee that the party they are interacting with is in fact Proton even though anybody watching or facilitating the interaction won't be able to know?
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Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail by 3np on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @06:23PM (#43838732)
Today? Use their .onion address[0] over Tor and TLS. The TLS certificate is secure by the tor secret service key. No WebPKI or centralized CAs required.

For tomorrow we should keep exploring and adopting improvements. Pick your poison.

[0]: Discovery left as excercise for reader

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Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail by mzajc on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @10:16PM (#43840500)
By this logic one could simply download Protonmail's TLS certificate instead of trusting a CA and access the service via clearnet. Fully decentralized. Discovery, once again, left as excercise for reader.
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Re:Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail by 3np on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:28PM (#43840976)
Presumably the ISPs and vendors will be forced to block you/Proton there via regular means, so no.
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