Wondering How Blockchain is Going to Change Email Security?- Look What ProtonMail is Doing

Conventional email services like Google, risk privacy and security of their user’s database by selling the advertising space which enables third-party access to user’s email account and creates a room for hackers to move into with a motive to intercept emails and even delete them if server coincidently runs out of space.

Blockchain stores encrypted messages on a decentralized network permanently, securing information for the recipient only. Some services are already equipped with blockchain-based ProtonMail-Nxtcoin blockchain has Cryptamail encrypting its emails, John McAfee’s Swiftmail entrusts SwiftCoin and Envilope masters encryption with the “lock” restricting email viewing to a certain time and place.

User familiar interface is still present despite dependence on blockchain which creates a possibility of human error. Absent-minded leakage of secure email passwords or accidental sharing of the private key of a crypto wallet is not new.

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Thus, even if ProtonMail is taken as a token offer, it can help in restructuring the email platform and security codes along with maximizing it with the addition of completely new features.

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