Users inside Egypt are having difficulty accessing Proton services, since yesterday evening, Sunday, June 4, 2023, through its websites and applications on smartphones.
We have conducted several tests indicating that Proton services may be blocked inside Egypt, noting that the services work entirely outside Egypt and by connecting to VPN services from inside Egypt, and we are currently communicating with the company to confirm.
Our tests included web addresses:
www.proton.me
mail.proton.me
www.protonvpn.com
IP addresses:
185.70.42.45
185.70.42.37
185,159,159,142
The analysis was done by connecting via the 4G networks of Orange Egypt, Vodafone Egypt, and via the terrestrial Internet to the service provider in Egypt, We.
Proton is a company established in 2013 in Switzerland. It provides several services, most notably an encrypted email service. It is one of the most private and secure email services currently available. It is characterized by end-to-end email encryption, a technology that ensures that it is opened and read. Emails can only be sent by the original sender and recipient, and no other party, including ProtonMail itself, can access the content of the messages.
ProtonMail also offers a free and paid VPN service that provides users with the ability to protect their online privacy and secure their communications by encrypting their traffic and masking their real IP address.
