Dark Mail Alliance

The Dark Mail Alliance is an organization dedicated to creating an email protocol and architecture with end-to-end encryption.[1]

In October 2013, Silent Circle and Lavabit announced a project to create a more secure alternative to email and began a fundraising effort.[2][3] The Dark Mail Alliance team consists of Phil Zimmermann, Jon Callas, Mike Janke, and Ladar Levison.[1]

Dark Internet Mail Environment

Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME) aims to be a secure communication platform for asynchronous messaging across the Internet. It was presented by Ladar Levison and Stephen Watt at DEF CON on August 8, 2014.[4]

Specifications

There have been multiple revisions for DIME specifications. The latest revision is presented as a preliminary draft.

  • First public revision, December 2014[5]
  • Preliminary draft, March 2015[6]

Protocols

  • Dark Mail Transfer Protocol (DMTP)[6]
  • Dark Mail Access Protocol (DMAP)[6]

Data formats

Implementations

Server-side

Magma is the reference MIME server implementation. It supports server side encryption, SMTP, POP, IMAP and HTTP.[7]

Client-side

Volcano, a Thunderbird fork with DIME support.[8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Levison, Ladar. "Dark Mail Alliance website". Dark Mail Alliance. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative". Kickstarter.
  3. ↑ Hern, Alex. "Email is broken but Dark Mail Alliance is aiming to fix it". The Guardian newspaper. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "DEF CON 22 - Ladar Levison and Stephen Watt - Dark Mail". Youtube.
  5. ↑ "Dark Internet Mail Environment, Architecture and Specifications, December 2014" (PDF). Dark Mail. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  6. 1 2 3 "Dark Internet Mail Environment, Architecture and Specifications, March 2015" (PDF). Dark Mail. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  7. ↑ "lavabit/magma.classic". GitHub.
  8. ↑ Scharr, Jill. "DIME, Formerly DarkMail, Promises Secure Email".


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