ProtonMail is adding TouchID to stop you locking yourself out of your encrypted inbox

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by Sindy Cator on May 4, 2016 at 9:36 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

ProtonMail launched to the public back in April, along with slick Android and iOS apps, to offer up a secure email client that even your mom could use. Trouble is, your mom probably ain’t no good at remembering passwords and ProtonMail needed you to enter two before you got to your inbox, the latter of which decrypts your emails and can’t be retrieved if you forget it. Well, v1.2.3 is now rolling out to beta testers and offers iOS users the choice to turn on TouchID so you can forget those pesky passwords, if you’re using it on an Apple handset with a…