On 06/29/2014 02:02 PM, m...@ruggedinbox.com wrote: > Hi nice people, easy question for this nice Sunday :D > > Are you aware of any solution that would replicate (or even improve) the > technology that was developed by lavabit to encrypt their users mailboxes ? > > There is an architecture description here: > http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/13/in-memoriam-lavabit-architecture-creating-a-scalable-email-s.html > > ... > > encrypting and decrypting the users mailbox with their password (or a > dedicated password), on the fly, would be fairly easy > > but what happens when an incoming email needs to be saved to the user's > inbox, but the inbox is encrypted ? > > Mmm scratching our heads ... :) > > > > Do you think we can work on an open source solution together ? > > Or you just suggest to use PGP/GPG ? > > > > Thanks for your attention and contribution!
Accidentally I just finished a blog entry (5 min ago) on how you can store your email encrypted in Gmail. Not sure whether it is similar to how Lavabit encrypted their email, I guess not since there keys were all server side adaik, but it might be an interesting read. http://ciphermail.com/blog/encrypted-email-in-the-cloud.html Kind regards, Martijn Brinkers -- CipherMail email encryption Open source email encryption gateway with support for S/MIME, OpenPGP and PDF messaging. http://www.ciphermail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/CipherMail
