[guardian-dev] Lavabit, then Silent Mail shuts down

Dominik Schürmann dominik at dominikschuermann.de
Fri Aug 9 12:29:03 EDT 2013


I really don't understand what's happening here. Are there more
information about Lavabits infrastructure and software setup?

When no keys are stored on their servers there would be no need to shut
it down like this. The same goes for Silent Circle's Mail system, as it
seems to use PGP.

Regards
Dominik

On 09.08.2013 18:05, Hans of Guardian wrote:
> 
> This is something to watch closely related to OStel.  Lavabit is a private mail service that was apparently good enough for Snowden.  They choose to shutdown rather than give in to demands that they are legally not allowed to talk about.  This is not only a problem in the USA, but all over the world.  
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/ed-snowdens-encrypted-e-mail-service-shuts-down-leaving-cryptic-message/
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-wake-of-lavabit-shutdown-another-secure-e-mail-service-goes-offline/
> 
> In light of this, this is where the core idea for OStel has unique strength:  OStel should be as easy as possible for anyone to set up, with servers that federate so that people can call each other on different servers.  It would be great to see more dead simple recipes for setting up secure servers for all sorts of federating services like XMPP, email, etc.
> 
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