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

Server-side

Magma is the reference MIME server implementation. It supports server side encryption, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol (POP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).[7]

Client-side

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

See also

References
  1. 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. "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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