Ladar Levison, the founder of the now shuttered
secure email service Lavabit, is working to build encryption into email at the source. As a member of the Darkmail Technical
Alliance, Levison and his colleagues are working on a project called DIME, the Dark Internet Mail Environment. The idea is to create a replacement for existing email servers that uses DMTP (the Dark
Mail Transfer Protocol) and DMAP (Dark Mail Access Protocol) in order to make encrypting emails default.
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