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Cake day: April 9th, 2024

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  • Personally, I feel like their service, except for VPN, was always half assed.

    • No access to SMTP for automation
    • Need to use that shitty bridge to use a useful client
    • No pgp encryption in their web interface when talking to people not at proton
    • proton drive does not offer any useful protocol like ftp, webdav, or sftp
    • Calendar and Contacts cannot be easily synchronized to phone and desktop apps

    The list goes on. I have only one account left with a proton email and the letter with a code so I can change that lies on my desk.














  • The background is that certificate revocation is a broken system and having short lived certificates makes the problem go away. You don’t need to worry about how to tell people that some certificate is bad if it’s only valid for a few days.

    Ideally, certificates would only be valid for a few days, it should be automated anyway. This has other downsides as I can imagine, like creation of more traffic. My self signed CA for my home LAN has 4 days as standard, and it works perfectly fine.