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Popularsecure emailprovider Proton has finally released its standalone desktop app, raising above some of its big tech competitors.
Offline access to emails will soon be available as well.
Proton promises to store all your email with zero-access encryption, meaning that the provider can never access your messages or hand them over to third parties.
Yen explains that users can still configure standard third-party email desktop apps viaProton Mail Bridge.
Yet, the new app comes as a more straightforward way of using privacy-first products.
A shiny new software deserves some new features, though.
Proton promises to store all your email with zero-access encryption, meaning that the provider can never access your messages or hand them over to third parties.
Proton Calendar got some improvements as well.
The provider also promises an even better level of security thanks to a new encrypted email forwarding feature.
Bart Butler, CTO of Proton, described this as “a first” for encrypted email service.
He said: “Messages sent between Proton Mail accounts are always end-to-end encrypted by default.
But to maintain end-to-endencryptionfor messages forwarded to other Proton users presented a huge technical challenge.
Our cryptographic engineers have made this possible.”
It will land for all users sometime early 2024.
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