[Discuss] Lavabit Email Shutdown

[Edward Ned Harvey (blu)]

What exactly, was lavabit's service offering, anyway?

If you're going to interact with the normal SMTP email system ... you can encrypt attachments and so forth ... but a lot of information is leaked in the unprotected fields, like to/from/subject/etc.

But that's impossible to change.  So what exactly did they offer?  A communication service that's completely different from email?  With perhaps, an email notification interface, that notifies you to login via https to receive your message?

That's all I can think of.

And it wasn't just lavabit.  There was another company shut down too.