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

[Dominik Schürmann]

Your copied text implies that Silent Circle implemented end-to-end
security based on OpenPGP for their mail service, which again leaved me
wondering why they are shutting it down.

I found out they provide 2 modes: one end-to-end secure variant, and one
using PGP Universal Server (Symantec?) only encrypting server side [1].
This partly explains their reasoning, but not completly. They could
switch of the universal key server but keep providing end-to-end secure PGP.

[1] https://silentcircle.com/web/silent-mail/

On 09.08.2013 18:36, Alan Miller wrote:
> Silent Circle has preemptively discontinued Silent Mail service to prevent spying.
> 
> We designed our phone, video, and text services (Silent Phone, Text and Eyes) to be completely end-to-end secure with all cryptography done on the clients and our exposure to your data to be nil. The reasons are obvious -- the less of your information we have, the better it is for you and for us…. (rest you can read on the website).
> 
> 
> So thats why my silent circle email no longer works !
> 
> Land of the free ?
> 
> 

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