Earlier this week, Felten made the observation that the government eavesdropping on Lavabit could be considered as an insider attack against Lavabit users. This leads to the obvious question: how might we design an email system that’s resistant to such an attack? The sad answer is that we’ve had this technology for decades but it […]
Engineering an insider-attack-resistant email system and why you wouldn't want to use it
October 16, 2013 by
End-to-End Encrypted GMail? Not So Easy
December 18, 2012 by
Last week Julian Sanchez urged Google to offer end-to-end encryption for GMail, so that your messages would be known to you and your browser (and your email correspondents) but not to Google itself. Julian explained why this would be a positive step for users and, arguably, for Google itself. Let’s talk about what would be […]
