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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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Proton Pass is open source and has now passed an independent security audit (proton.me)

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Hey,

Proton Pass is open source and has now passed an independent security audit (by Cure53). The Android and iOS apps source code can be found here, the browser extensions source code for Firefox and Chrome-based browsers (including Edge) can be found here.

Proton has also completed an independent security audit conducted by Cure53 for all Proton Pass applications and browser extensions, along with the Proton API. This was a “white box” audit, meaning the security researchers were given full access to the Proton Pass source code, along with full access to Proton Pass engineers.

More information can be found in the blog post over here. The audit report can also be found in the blog post.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

someone who knows more about security

Not sure if I qualify for that, but just logically, there's only really a difference if you are not planning on storing your email password in your password manager anyway. If you do that, it doesn't really matter that you have the same password for both, since if your password manager is compromised, your email is just as compromised.

But, and it's a big "but", that's assuming you're using a cloud-based password manager that only requires a single master password to get into. My point of reference here is 1Password, where that's not enough - you also need a device with which you have logged in before, or you need your long, unmemorable Secret Key in addition to your password. You cannot log into 1Password on a new device with just your master password, the way that it appears to be possible with Proton.