Here's a link to an overview of the service and architecture: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/13/in-memoriam-lavabit-architecture-creating-a-scalable-ema

Here's a link to an overview of the service and architecture: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/13/in-memoriam-lavabit-architecture-creating-a-scalable-email-s.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/13/in-memoriam-lavabi... And a critique of the design from Moxie Marlinspike: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/ http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/ The critique provides details about how relatively easily the server could obtain any information about an account and its contents.