When is an email encrypted?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
cryptography, security

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No file, test, or entry point is identified in the issue. Start by locating the project's documentation or implementation for internal and external email encryption, and consider the work complete only when both questions have a maintainer-confirmed, user-facing explanation.

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I know when sending internally inside Proton Mail system, the message is encrypted with the public key of the addressee.

However, how about when sending externally and receiving mail from external email services,

  1. Is the sending-away message encrypted with my public key?
  2. Is the received message encrypted with my public key?
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