organization:dark mail alliance

Dark Mail Alliance : Welcome To The Beginning - dupartdominique gmail.com - Gmail
►https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14258527eb145166

We have had an overwhelming response from email providers all over the world, including such far away places as Ghana, Iceland, Russia and the South Pacific Islands. We are going to do all we can to keep everyone informed, communicate and work side by side with these early-adopter providers. Our hope is that when most of us have it ready to go, we launch as an entire group so people around the world will have immediate options of providers from day 1. Not a small undertaking and one that will take some time, but one that will happen.

Dark Mail Alliance : Welcome To The Beginning - dupartdominique gmail.com - Gmail
►https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14258527eb145166

We have had heard a few comments about the name “Dark Mail” being sinister or somehow seedy. Dark Mail is meant to imply that your email is dark, or unseen to others. That it is secure, private and that your written words are not viewed by some data-mining tech firm or a surveillance-hungry government agency. We are proud of the name, we stand behind it and for goodness sake – it’s just the name of our technical alliance.

Dark Mail Alliance
►http://darkmail.info

Our Mission
To bring the world our unique end-to-end encrypted protocol and architecture that is the ’next-generation’ of private and secure email. As founding partners of The Dark Mail Alliance, both Silent Circle and Lavabit will work to bring other members into the alliance, assist them in implementing the new protocol and jointly work to proliferate the worlds first end-to-end encrypted ’Email 3.0’ throughout the world’s email providers. Our goal is to open source the protocol and architecture and help others implement this new technology to address privacy concerns against surveillance and back door threats of any kind.

Dark Mail Alliance : Lavabit, Silent Circle team up to create surveillance-proof email.
►http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/30/dark_mail_alliance_lavabit_silent_circle_team_up_to_create_surveillance.html

Existing forms of email encryption, like PGP, can be used to encrypt the content of an email. But PGP cannot encrypt the “subject” header or metadata like the “to” and “from” fields, and the average user can find it too complicated to use. Dark Mail promises to address both of these issues in the form of an easy-to-use iOS app and an Android app. There will also be desktop versions for Mac and Windows users. People using the technology will still be able to send emails to friends or colleagues using Gmail and Hotmail—but when sending messages to non-Dark Mail users, a warning will be displayed, making it clear that the communication could be intercepted.

Dark Mail Alliance : Lavabit, Silent Circle team up to create surveillance-proof email.
►http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/30/dark_mail_alliance_lavabit_silent_circle_team_up_to_create_surveillance.html

The newly developed technology has been designed to look just like ordinary email, with an interface that includes all the usual folders—inbox, sent mail, and drafts. But where it differs is that it will automatically deploy peer-to-peer encryption, so that users of the Dark Mail technology will be able to communicate securely. The encryption, based on a Silent Circle instant messaging protocol called SCIMP, will apply to both content and metadata of the message and attachments. And the secret keys generated to encrypt the communications will be ephemeral, meaning they are deleted after each exchange of messages.