Founder Ladar Levison launched Lavabit in 2004 on the principle that everyoneâindividuals, organizations and businessesâhas the innate right to private, secure communication.
In 2013, we suspended service to protect our global customers when the U.S. government ordered us to release our Transport Layer Security private keys. To protect your digital privacy and freedom, we said no.
In 2014, we began development of the Dark Internet Mail Environment âDIMEâa revolutionary end-to-end encrypted global standard, and extending Magma, our free, open-source mail server, for use with the new standard.
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