ProtonMail and Anonymity

[Stefan Claas]

Kirill Peskov wrote:

> First of all...
> 
> On 05.05.19 12:12, Stefan Claas wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > appologies for posting this, but I think it could
> > be of interest for GnuPG users, because ProtoMail
> > uses the OpenPGP protocol too.
> 
> It uses OpenPGP protocol, but quite a twisted way. And they're not
> OpenPGP-compliant, because they're not able to encrypt mails leaving
> their domain. Any webmail by itself cannot be secure, because provider
> can always send you 'modified' browser applet and steal your private
> key and some day — the passphrase.
> 
> Real anonymous email services are out there in .onion domain, but
> they're neither stable nor trusted by non-onion recipients...

Correct and also .onion domains come and go.

The only IMHO reliable anonymous email services are if you
use Anonymous Remailers (with a Nym account) or Bitmessage
(with an additional Mailchuck email gateway address).

Regards
Stefan