
You can set this expiration time in days, and hours.Īnother icon, which is the lock icon lets you set a public key to encrypt the message for a non-user of ProtonMail. You can make use of the hourglass icon, located at the top of the compose box to set an expiration time for your message. In both cases, the company cannot give your messages to a government entity even if subpoenaed. If an email is sent from other senders, the email is encrypted with zero access encryption. When the recipient logs in, their mailbox password decrypts their private key and unlocks their inbox. Once encrypted, only the private key of the recipient can decrypt the email. Encrypted Email.Īn email sent from one ProtonMail account to another is automatically encrypted with the public key of the recipient. For Android and iOS users, its application version is available on the Google Play Store and App Store respectively.

A website version of ProtonMail can be used on Windows and macOS. If you have used Gmail or any other popular email service, you can easily use ProtonMail. It was launched in 2014 and as of now, it has more than 10 million users worldwide. As we mentioned above, ProtonMail is an end-to-end encrypted email service.
