:"Captain Picard. There's a subspace message for you from Starfleet command. It's on [dramatic pause] a secure channel."

:"A secure channel?!? What could be so important?"

:"Good question, number one. Let's just hope it doesn't delay our rendezvous at Rigal 7. Lieutenant Worf, I'll take it in my ready room."

: Generates a 256 bit public key, exchanges public keys over subspace, calculates a session key, checks validity of web certificate "Handshake protocol complete. Connection is secure."

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Me: "Computer, log into Proton Mail."

Computer voice acted by Majel Barrett: "Proton Mail connection establish. Please enter user name and password."

Me: enters user name and password

Computer voice: "Warning, this connection is not secure. Hackers may be able to intercept your private information."

Me: "Computer, establish a secure connection."

Computer voice: "Unable to comply. A secure connection requires level 4 or above access."