a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by Cedar
Cedar  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lavabit developer has a new encrypted, end-to-end email protocol

    For instance, Paranoid mode means Lavabit’s servers will never store a user’s private keys.

That should be the default, and only, behaviour.

    Lavabit will only be accessible to existing users of the service and only in Trustful mode.

I believe the service was stopped because they could not guarantee they had not been compromised by a (government) third party. Now they are back, with knowledge of previous customers, and the only way to use the service is to give them your private keys...?

2017, man.





mk  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Lavabit will only be accessible to existing users of the service and only in Trustful mode.

That does seem odd. Given what happened, I don't think it'd be wise for previous users to do so.