That’s the only way I can imagine it working.
People frequently confuse privacy with anonymity. Proton never claims you can’t be identified. Only that your communications are as private a possible.
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TehPers@beehaw.org 2 weeks agorecovery email which they did not hash
How do you recover an account on the other providers? Do you have to provide the same recovery email you set before during account recovery? If you hash the email, you have no way of reading it anymore, so someone has to provide it to you again.
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
sanzky@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
you ask the user for it if they want to recover the account and hash it. if the hash matches your previously stored hash then you send the email
other providers that position themselves as secure for activists or journalists do exactly that and they cannot handle that information