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Re: Idea: How to exchange Emails outside the forum, without giving up opsec
by
OutOfMemory
on 09/12/2020, 22:42:12 UTC
Isn't it much easier to just use a new Protonmail account for this? I made one for the sole purpose of receiving an encrypted email once, and if I need it again, I can just use it again.

Consider you posted your protonmail addy on a public www channel. You would receive quite some spam. It's like indirectly spamming protonmail, especially if you'd do this often, imho. That's why i chose the ten minute way, for example to let somebody i don't know write to my protonmail address. I wouldn't need to remember (or store) multiple protonmail addresses, change their password(s) regularly (optimally) etc.

It's just another layer of security and there are no after effects as soon as the mail address expires.
But hey, security isn't always meant to be easier, isn't it?  Wink