It's been almost three months since the closure of Lavabit. Everything, however, shows that the founder of Mrs. Levison it does not put it down. Today the Lavabitand Silent Circle announced that they will join forces to launch a new Dark Mail service. The new service will provide a secure, encrypted peer-to-peer e-mail system that is much more robust to government oversight. They call it "Dark Mail Alliance. "
"We can no longer trust the internet. "We can not trust governments," Levison said in an interview with Mashable. "So we have to develop a new system that will be resistant to this kind of intervention."
The Dark Mail it will not only be implemented in Silent Circle's new secure email applications, but will also be offered as an open source functional system based on a new XMPP security protocol architecture developed by Silent Circle and called SCIMP ( Silent Circle Instant Messaging Protocol).
The new email service Dark Mail is intended to bring us a new e-mail and not what we know. In theory, the providers (owners) will have neither the decryption keys to hand them over to the FBI and the NSA if they are ever asked.
The technical details will be published in a few weeks when everything is ready.
