Lavabit to reopen for 5 days to let users download lost emails
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 11:21 pm
I know we have a few Lavabit users on the forums, just thought I'd share this news.[/size]
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2054429/ ... mails.html
[quote=PCWorld]
Secure email provider Lavabit is coming back from the dead for a brief time to give users a chance to recover their data, after abruptly shutting its doors in August to protest what the company considered intrusive data requests from the U.S. government.
Lavabit’s data recovery is slated to begin on Friday, October 18.
Before Lavabit data becomes publicly available again, users will have 72 hours to change their passwords at the rebelliously named https://liberty.lavabit.com. Lavabit says it is offering a brief password reset window to ease concerns that user login data may have been compromised.
"If users are indeed concerned that their account information has been compromised, this will allow them to change their account password on a website with a newly secured SSL key," Lavabit said in a statement.
The new SSL key for the data retrieval period is of particularly crucial note. In early August, a court compelled Lavabit founder Ladar Levison to hand over the company’s SSL keys, according to a recent report in The New Yorker. Levison originally resisted this request, believing that handing over Lavabit’s SSL keys would open up a “profound exploitation of his service’s communications,” the report said. Soon after surrendering the SSL keys Levison shut down Lavabit.
SSL is the standard encryption method that secures communications between a Website and personal devices such as PCs, smartphones, and tablets. Presumably, Lavabit's new SSL encryption is not in the hands of the government—at least not yet.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2054429/ ... mails.html
[quote=PCWorld]
Secure email provider Lavabit is coming back from the dead for a brief time to give users a chance to recover their data, after abruptly shutting its doors in August to protest what the company considered intrusive data requests from the U.S. government.
Lavabit’s data recovery is slated to begin on Friday, October 18.
Before Lavabit data becomes publicly available again, users will have 72 hours to change their passwords at the rebelliously named https://liberty.lavabit.com. Lavabit says it is offering a brief password reset window to ease concerns that user login data may have been compromised.
"If users are indeed concerned that their account information has been compromised, this will allow them to change their account password on a website with a newly secured SSL key," Lavabit said in a statement.
The new SSL key for the data retrieval period is of particularly crucial note. In early August, a court compelled Lavabit founder Ladar Levison to hand over the company’s SSL keys, according to a recent report in The New Yorker. Levison originally resisted this request, believing that handing over Lavabit’s SSL keys would open up a “profound exploitation of his service’s communications,” the report said. Soon after surrendering the SSL keys Levison shut down Lavabit.
SSL is the standard encryption method that secures communications between a Website and personal devices such as PCs, smartphones, and tablets. Presumably, Lavabit's new SSL encryption is not in the hands of the government—at least not yet.
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