ProtonMail Over Tor Can Now Increase Privacy, Security, And Censorship Resilience

[Lucian Armasu]

ProtonMail launched its own .onion address to fight censorship and DDoS attacks, as well as to increase its users' security and privacy.

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[DookieDraws]

Meh, I'll just stick with my Yahoo! email account for all of my super top secret, highly sensitive, emailing.

 

[derekullo]

"ProtonMail used its spare CPU capacity to generate a more readable and more easily remembered .onion address such as protonirockerxow.onion, which could be remembered as “proton i rocker xow.”

Proton i rocker xow does not really roll off the tongue.

Did they use spare pentium 2's cpu capacity to "think" of that name?

Maybe something like:

protonemail.onion

or

protonmail.com

Am I missing something?

 

[TechMivec]

"Because .onion address names are generated randomly when chosen, you have to expend significant amounts of computation to get a name that you want."

It doesn't take any cpu cycles to think of protonmail or protonemail as a name if names weren't randomly generated.

 

[Tanyac]

Now, if only they'd provide pop/smtp access available, so we don't have to leave our email in the clouds...