Proton Mail contacts → Android system address book.

A GPL-3.0 Android app that signs in to a Proton Mail account, decrypts the user's contacts client-side, and exposes them to ContactsContract so they appear in the system Contacts app (and any other app that reads contacts) the same way WhatsApp or Telegram surface their own contact directories.

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[–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Why not just add mail address to your regular contacts ? Simpler, safer.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Proton Mail can access your local contacts app, but not sync backwards with it on Android. This means that you do not have cloud sync for contacts if you are not signed into Google, or if you are kn a degoogled ROM. This app would be a way to get around this. Add a new contact to either Proton Mail or your local Contacts app, and it gets backed up to Proton & synced with both apps.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I wouldn’t use a package that does that because it breaks the security of proton, but tbh it’s email who cares.

    As far as that package in particular who can say.

    From a more 10,000 foot perspective: if you have to ask on a public forum if an application you give access to your secure email account so it can copy and paste contacts into your os address book is safe it’s probably worthwhile to figure out what you’re trying to do and under what constraints.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Leaving the encryption part aside, are you sure that uploading your Proton contacts directly to Google is something you want?

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  • I wouldn't do this. You're leaking important information that was specifically protected by proton to any app that asks for it and to google.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I have no idea about this app.

    That said, I use Tuta in part because they allow contact sharing on Android. It may be worth checking whether this app is using a similar approach to Tuta, as I trust that their method is secure.

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