‘British wanted to back door in secure mail service’

Just as the NSA also wanted the British secret service GCHQ have a backdoor in the service of a company that the opportunity offered to encrypted e-mail. Subsequently, the company CertiVox, in order for this service to close.

The service, PrivateSky, offered customers the ability to encrypted e-mail and was comparable with Lavabit. At the end of 2012 decided CertiVox to stop with PrivateSky, after the company with a so-called Ripa-command was forced to send e-mails to hand. “You have to comply with a Ripa-order, otherwise you will have to jail,” says CertiVox ceo Brian Spector opposite to IT Security Guru.

According to Spector the company was able to choose between the ability to use the service even safer, so the service itself, the e-mail of customers would not be able to read, or a backdoor to the GCHQ building. If the service that the latter had chosen, that had CertiVox half a million pound cost, allows Spector, though it is unclear which of those high costs would be caused.

Instead, it decided CertiVox the power cord from PrivateSky to attract. The service in the air and a backdoor installation would, according to Spector a “catastrophic invasion of privacy” of customers. It is unclear why the service there instead, not have chosen to the service to make it safer, which, according to Spector, the other choice was. Is used CertiVox the service but still internal.

This summer closed Lavabit, which is also encrypted e-mail service, are doors when the American government the ssl key, so that data of customers could be drained. Ladar Levison, founder of Lavabit, did not want to participate, but refusal could lead to imprisonment. The U.s. government probably wanted mails from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to get your hands on.