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Lavabit Founder Working on Push to Make Email Encrypted at the Source

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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