Brother, can you spare a DIME for holy grail of secure webmail?

  • 20 August 2014
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By John Leyden, 20 Aug 2014
 
Feature Lavabit founder Ladar Levison promised attendees at security conference DefCon that he'd carve out a secure messaging service from the wreckage of the email service favoured by rogue NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden within six months.
The Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME) project is promising, but recent problems experienced by others attempting to put together snoop-proof email platforms show that Levison and his partners at Silent Circle are grappling with one of the most difficult problems in computer security.
Levison pulled down the shutters on Lavabit rather than handing over crypto keys that would have given the FBI access to everyone's email on the site – and not just those of their presumed target, NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
The Lavabit founder earned the respect of privacy activists, and the ire of the Feds, by responding to a court demand to hand over SSL certificates by printing the keys in 4-point font described by one prosecutor as "largely illegible". He eventually complied with the order before closing the service.
 
The Register/ Full Article Here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/20/secure_webmail_analysis/

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