Texas-based Lavabit shut down in 2013 after not complying with court order to obtain SSL keys to snoop on Edward Snowden’s emails. Lavabit CEO releases source code for end-to-end encrypted global email standard that promises surveillance-proof messaging that even hides the metadata on emails to prevent agencies like the NSA or FBI from being able to find out with whom Lavabit users communicate. The new standard will be available on Github today, along with an associated mail server program called Magma, ready for use with the Dark Internet Mail Environment.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/01/encrypted-email-lavabit.html