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Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

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Introducing Emergency Access (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Nelizea@lemmy.world to c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world

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from the team:

Proton protects your digital life: your emails, files, and passwords. In an emergency, it may be critical that the people you trust can access this information securely.

Proton's Emergency Access Feature

With Emergency Access, you can designate up to five trusted contacts who can access your Proton Mail, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, and Proton VPN if the unexpected occurs.

How it works:

Choose up to 5 Proton users as emergency contacts.
Trusted contacts who make an access request can access your account after a set wait time. During the wait time, you can approve the request immediately or deny it. If you do nothing, the request will automatically be approved after the wait time.
You can revoke or modify access at any time.

Emergency access preserves end-to-end encryption.

This feature is now available with paid Proton plans.

If you want peace of mind and flexibility in critical situations, set up Emergency Access today and make sure your loved ones are never locked out of essential information.

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[–] Nelizea@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Proton does not hold the access key in a form that allows us to decrypt a user's data. Instead, we store a copy of the account’s encryption key, which itself is encrypted using the trusted contact’s public key. This means only the trusted contact can decrypt it — and even they can only do so once Proton's system grants access, for example after a confirmed emergency or timeframe. Neither Proton nor the trusted contact can access the user’s data on their own — both are required for access to happen, preserving end-to-end encryption principles.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

It's amazing how I forget asymmetric crypto exists and be like "how did they do this?" every single time.

[–] Broken@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a welcomed feature.

To clarify though, is it full account access? I.e. can they make changes to the account? I'm thinking in terms of death or incapacitation, where they would need to take over the account.

[–] Nelizea@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

is it full account access?

Yes ,they can also as example keep paying for the account