[Cryptography] Open Letter to Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas of Silent Circle, On The Closure of the “Silent Mail” Service

[This Open Letter will be posted to https://LeastAuthority.com when we get our new blog up and running there.] This open letter is in response to the `recent shutdown of Lavabit`_ , the ensuing `shutdown of Silent Circle's “Silent Mail” product`_, `Jon Callas's posts about the topic on G+`_, and

Re: [Cryptography] What is the state of patents on elliptic curve cryptography?

Here's a nice resource: RFC 6090! https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6090 Also relevant: http://cr.yp.to/ecdh/patents.html I'd be keen to see a list of potentially-relevant patents which have expired or are due to expire within the next 5 years. Regards, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn Founder, CEO, and

[Cryptography] LeastAuthority.com announces PRISM-proof storage service

Dear people of cryptogra...@metzdowd.net: For obvious reasons, now is the time to push forward on strong encryption for everyone. Here is our first attempt from https://LeastAuthority.com . (We have more projects in the works!) One of our goals is to spread the idea of *verifiable* end-to-end