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Hushmail is starting to come back online now, although the Java security does not yet work
"Could not connect to SOAP endpoint"
More details and RSS feed about Hushmail status at
http://www.hushmailstatus.com/
In theory, there was a backup electrical generator set at the Peer1.net co-hosting facility, which kicked in for a bit when the power failed.
However, that was not sufficient:
Presumably the water pressure dropped, as a result of the fire service using several fire hoses to douse the underground cable vault fire.
Is your computer room backup power supply also critically dependent on water as well as on UPS batteries and diesel fuel for the generator(s) ?
Hushmail seems to be working ok again.
I heard that hushmail was giving out private pgp keys to the US security services on request.
If this were true I imagine you would no longer be using it?
@ Max - it is not quite as bad as that, and even if it were, Hushmail would still be worth using in preference to the alternatives.
In one case, the US Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) was investigating a small scale illegal anabolic steroids distributor in the USA, and his Chinese suppliers (legal in China).
They were exchanging orders and shipping details via encrypted Hushmail accounts.
The DEA had to firstly get a Canadian Court Order before Hushmail would supply them with de-crypted versions of what was stored on their servers i.e. inbox , outbox, stored document folder, and also the communications traffic data in the webserver log files of the dates, times and the apparent IP addresses from which the two Hushmail accounts were apparently accessed from. Some of these IP address details could be correlated with the internet activity of the US anabolic steroid dealer's computer, thereby establishing a legally evidential, rather than a purely intelligence link between him and the Hushmail account under investigation.
It is not clear if Hushmail had to substitute a special compromised Java applet to capture the decryption key, or whether they forced an SSL only (no Java applet) man-in-the-middle session on their own infrastructure.
The hypothesis is that if the drug dealers had been simply reading their emails and deleting them once read, there would have been little or nothing of interest to the DEA to be handed over.
The well known terrorist technique of sharing the login details for an email account, but not actually using the account to transmit important messages, simply composing an unsent draft email, and then getting the other person to log , read it and then delete it, might also not have aroused the suspicion of the investigators. This requires the use of another signaling channel to say that there is a message waiting to be read e.g. another innocuous email account or mobile phone SMS text message etc.
Similarly, the use of open proxy servers or open WiFi connections or of the Tor onion routing cloud, , could nullify the value of the IP address log files at the Hushmail webserver end.
Hushmail is still vastly more secure and private than Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL or your local UK ISPs email offerings, all of which could have been snooped on without a Court Order by the US Government (NSA) and all the UK agencies which can get RIPA Part 1 interception warrants or certificates, and RIPA Part 2 Communications Traffic Data via Data Protection Act section 29 requests, and RIPA Part 3 Information Protected by Encryption section 49 Notices.etc.
There is little prospect of most foreign Governments or organised criminal gangs applying for and getting a Canadian Court Order, and this would have to be on an individual case by case basis, rather than a global "data trawling" of all of Hushmail's encrypted traffic.
Hushmail forces you to use SSL all the time, and this in itself is usually enough to defeat the snooping efforts of your family, employer, educational institution, local cyber cafe proprietor, local "free" or "open" WiFi access point provider etc.
It also provides a convenient method of digitally signing emails and attached files, simply for message transmission integrity purposes, even without he use of encryption for secrecy purposes.
You can always use your own PGP (or GPG) encryption on top of or instead of the Hushmail supplied version.
Tip: if you encrypt or sign and encrypt a message using your own PGP or GPG software, and then also use Hushmail to encrypt and or digitally sign your PGP message block inline in the body of the email, rather than as an attachment, this seems to cause problems for some versions of GPG software, due to an extra "-" and and extra " " space at the start of the encrypted block. Windows PGP software handles this ok, but various Linux open source and Apple versions of GPG do not. Either dispense with using Hushmail's digital signing, if you are already encrypting and signing with your local PGP key, or put any such messages or files into attachments rather than the inline body of the email message.
See the section on Email and Encryption in our Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers - Technical Hints and Tips for the anonymity of sources for Whistleblowers, Investigative Journalists, Campaign Activists and Political Bloggers