新华网8月13日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo报道，当政府找上斯诺登常用的加密邮件服务商Lavabit的时候，Lavabit作了一件很明智的事情，它直接关闭了。其他类似的商家也采取了类似的措施，但是现在Kim Doctcom计划抓住市场机遇。

据报道，Kim Doctcom计划开设一个“高度安全的邮件系统，不运行在美国的服务器上。”在博文中，Mega的首席执行官Vikram Kumar解释了新动作背后的原因：

“（最近的关闭动作）是 隐私的自杀 ——光荣而公开的关闭，而不是被迫遵守法律和法庭的要求来侵犯公民的隐私。”

因此，很明显Mega正在开发带有“超高加密等级”的邮件系统，这个项目“令人兴奋”但“非常艰难”。他说：

“最大的技术障碍是提供人们期待的功能，比如搜索邮件，如果邮件是纯文本的（或者有纯文本的版本），那么这个在服务器上很简单。但如果所有服务器存储的都是加密信息，这里是end-to-end加密，因此所有功能都要建立在客户端。在这方面和其他方面，Mega作了很多前沿性的探索。世界上恐怕还没有人采取Mega的方式来为大众提供真正的加密服务，而这是我们的核心诉求。”

Kim Doctcom建议Mega不要持有任何解码密匙，这样客户的邮件就永远不能被解开了，即使有人想解密也不行。看起来加密邮件服务也没有完全消失嘛。

译者：林杉

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Kim Dotcom Is Creating a 'Cutting Edge' Encrypted Email Service

When the government came knocking becayse Edward Snowden used Lavabit's encrypted email service, it did the sensible thing and, uh, shut itself down. Other similar services have followed suit—and now Kim Doctcom plans to capture the market that's being left wide open.

According to RT, the man behind Mega plans to start running a "highly-secure email service to run on a non-US-based server." In a blog post, Mega s Chief Executive Vikram Kumar explained the thinking behind the new initiative:

“These [recent closures] are acts of Privacy Seppuku honorably and publicly shutting down (“suicide”) rather than being forced to comply with laws and courts intent on violating people s privacy.”

So, apparently Mega is working on an email system with an "exceptional level of encryption," a project which is “exciting” but “very hard.” He explains:

“The biggest tech hurdle is providing email functionality that people expect, such as searching emails, that are trivial to provide if emails are stored in plain text (or available in plain text) on the server side. If all the server can see is encrypted text, as is the case with true end-to-end encryption, then all the functionality has to be built client side... On this and other fronts, Mega is doing some hugely cutting-edge stuff. There is probably no one in the world who takes the Mega approach of making true crypto work for the masses, our core proposition."

For his part, Dotcom insists that Mega never holds any decryption keys so customer email can never be read, even if someone wants it to be. Looks like secure email might not be dead just yet.

(原标题：Kim Doctcom计划抓住机遇开发加密邮件系统（图）)