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It all happens on the client side. Servers only store the encrypted emails and have no idea what the contents or the keys are.
by rorrr2 13y ago
It all happens on the client side. Servers only store the encrypted emails and have no idea what the contents or the keys are.
- adrianwaj 13y agoright, but incoming and outgoing emails from lavabit servers won't necessarily be encrypted, unless the other party is using GPG or whatever - it's just the way they're stored.
- moutarde 13y agoThe same server(s) also control the JavaScript code run by the client/browser. They could serve special code (to any one the government wanted to spy on) that returned their password to the server.
- rorrr2 13y agoThat's exactly why LavaBit shut down, looks like they were forced to do that.