Two email providers forced to close their services in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations on mass surveillance have proposed a new open standard for secure email that would be harder for security services and others to eavesdrop upon.
The encrypted email service Lavabit, and Silent Circle, a firm also encrypting phone calls and texts, are the founding members of the Darkmail Alliance, a service that aims to prevent government agencies from listening in on the metadata of emails.
The metadata is the information bundled up with the content of an email such as that showing the sender, the recipient and date the message was sent.
Conventional email can never be made fully secure because the standard requires some metadata to be sent unencrypted.
Mike Janke, Silent Circle's chief executive and co-founder, said that this factor meant the medium was "fundamentally broken". Full story...
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The encrypted email service Lavabit, and Silent Circle, a firm also encrypting phone calls and texts, are the founding members of the Darkmail Alliance, a service that aims to prevent government agencies from listening in on the metadata of emails.
The metadata is the information bundled up with the content of an email such as that showing the sender, the recipient and date the message was sent.
Conventional email can never be made fully secure because the standard requires some metadata to be sent unencrypted.
Mike Janke, Silent Circle's chief executive and co-founder, said that this factor meant the medium was "fundamentally broken". Full story...
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