Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager

Proton, the Geneva, Switzerland-based firm behind the end-to-end encrypted electronic mail service Proton Mail, in addition to Proton VPN, Proton Drive and Proton Calendar, is asserting a model new product immediately. And it’s a password supervisor referred to as Proton Pass.

Like different Proton merchandise, the corporate is insisting on the privateness and safety features of this new password supervisor. All the pieces you retailer in Proton Cross is end-to-end encrypted, together with passwords (clearly), electronic mail addresses, URLs and notes.

This manner, Proton by no means has entry to your private info because the person secret’s required to decrypt knowledge and cryptographic operations happen domestically in your system. Even when Proton’s servers are breached, your knowledge ought to nonetheless be secure.

“That is vital as a result of seemingly innocuous bits of knowledge (comparable to saved URLs, which many different password managers don’t encrypt) can be utilized to create a extremely detailed profile on you. For instance, if an attacker can see that you’ve passwords saved for an account with Grindr, gop.com or perhaps a manga fan web site, they’ll know rather a lot about you as an individual, even when they’ll’t really entry your accounts,” Proton’s founder and CEO Andy Yen wrote in a blog post.

A beta model of Proton Cross is obtainable to loyal Proton clients, comparable to customers who’ve a lifetime plan. Clients with a Visionary plan will be capable of entry the product shortly. The Visionary plan is not out there to new clients.

Proton Cross can also be the results of the acquisition of SimpleLogin, an electronic mail alias startup. The SimpleLogin crew labored on Proton Cross with just a few crew members of the Proton crew.

Like with Proton VPN and the corporate’s different merchandise, the corporate plans to make use of a freemium enterprise mannequin when it rolls out Proton Cross to everybody. Some options will probably be out there without spending a dime, whereas you’ll have to pay for a subscription to entry superior options. Proton gives an all-in-one subscription, Proton Limitless, with all of the paid options in Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive and Proton Calendar. Superior Proton Cross options may also be included on this premium subscription tier.

Proton Cross is presently out there as a desktop browser extension, and iOS or Android app. Browser extensions work in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Clients may use Proton Cross as their two-factor authenticator (like Bitwarden, 1Password or iCloud Passwords).

In different information, Proton has just lately reached an vital milestone, as there are 100 million registered customers throughout the entire firm’s merchandise. In fact, Proton has a free tier for all its companies, together with Proton VPN, which implies that there are doubtless extra free customers than paid customers. But it surely additionally implies that Proton has no concern attracting new customers to its merchandise.

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