Post-quantum keys and Sequoia PGP

Some time ago, I saw news that “Proton Mail now supports post-quantum encryption”. Post-quantum protection is now available in Proton Mail, on all plans including free. Once enabled, Proton Mail will generate and use post-quantum-ready keys for new encrypted emails to protect your personal messages and business communications against today’s threats and a future where current public-key cryptography may no longer be enough. I use GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG), which implements the OpenPGP standard1, to encrypt my data. Even though the standard aims to provide email encryption, which I think is still useful to me, I use it more as a way to encrypt personal data that would be uploaded to cloud providers I do not fully trust. ...

27 May 2026 · 10 min · 2021 words · 이영욱