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Storing the private keys that decrypt the emails you're telling your users cannot be decrypted doesn't seem very secure. The whole sales pitch Lavabit used was
by akerl_ 12y ago
Storing the private keys that decrypt the emails you're telling your users cannot be decrypted doesn't seem very secure. The whole sales pitch Lavabit used was provably false, and for him to not foresee private key compromise on his servers would be remarkably shortsighted.
- gknoy 12y agoImagine what we'd have said if the keys had been compromised with Heartbleed.
- floody-berry 12y agoHe probably would've been called dishonest and accused of peddling snake oil. That whole conversation was, fortunately for him, buried under the "government is going crazy with power!!" story; he's a nerd hero who is sticking it to the man instead of just another crypto shyster.