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Proton Mail is now encrypting your contacts list too

Most email services come with built-in contact manager. They provide users the option to save and organise more details about any contact such as email address, mobile number, work number, physical address, birthday, job designation and more. Some also allow you to add specific notes to a contact, for additional information. Switzerland-based Proton Technologies has decided to encrypt the contact manager in its email service, making it the only email service to do so. The feature is rolling out to PC users who have received the latest version 3.12 of Proton Mail. The company is working on making it available on its Android and iOS apps too. The new contacts manager uses zero-access encryption which encrypts the entire contact details in such a way that no one except the user can decrypt and access them. Proton Mail claims that it does not have access to the private key (generated when the contact was being encrypted) and so it cannot modify or see encrypted contacts. Users can ...