- NPR, Friday, October 4, 2013 2:34 PM
Ladar Levison, the owner of the email encryption service Lavabit tried to use very small font to keep the government from reading encrypted emails that his company sent, according to
documents filed with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia which were unsealed on Wednesday. The documents revealed that
Levison tried to fight the government's request for information on one of his users, likely Edward Snowden, as well as a request for an encryption key that would let agents read the
communications of all its users. In response, he sent five, 2,560 character SSL encryption keys, but did so on an 11-page printout with text that used 4-point type.
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