• The Guardian, Monday, August 19, 2013 1:51 PM

Silent Circle, an email encryption services company that shut down earlier this month, after claiming that email could never really be private, has given more color to these assertions. In a blog post, the company explained that metadata prevents the company from simply use an asymmetric key cryptography plug-in to make email communications between users secure. "If the goal is simply to encrypt the body of the message there are services and products that accomplish this," explained Silent Circle's technical operations manager Louis Kowolowski in a blog post. "If your goal is to not have metadata leakage in your otherwise secure communications, you may wish to avoid email altogether. Email leaks the information about who is communicating, and how often. This information may be just as damaging as the content of the email."

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