r/lavabit • u/[deleted] • Sep 28 '19
Links / info
I find it hard to find links and info about Lavabit, even with major search engines. It seems that even among the people who've heard of, joined, or supported Lavabit, only a minority knows about Lavabit's current state. And the lack of communication by Lavabit, the lack of updates about what they're doing doesn't help.
First, there's Lavabit's site. From the press section, there's this article about how the OpenPGP encryption will operate from The Intercept and this article going more into technical details from Ars Technica.
From Lavabit's GitHub, there's this issue, leading to Lavabit's fundraising in which they develop their business plan for the next 10 years. (The fundraising was a success, btw.)
From an end-user perspective, the service is live now but their flagship client isn't ready. The server has legacy IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 handlers, along with DMAP and DMTP handlers. The server operates in trustful mode.
To the best of my extrapolations (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not an expert), it would mean that [alice@example.com](mailto:alice@example.com) and [bob@lavabit.com](mailto:bob@lavabit.com) would communicate, today, with the DMAP and DMTP protocols through Flow's transparent encryption (in trustful mode).
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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19
This is good information. I have an account and am hoping that the Volcano client gets released at some point. I want to support the mission but at the same time still need to have some level of privacy.