Former users of the Lavabit encrypted e-mail service have until Thursday night to change their passwords so they can recover data that has been unavailable since the site abruptly shut down two months ago.
Lavabit founder Ladar Levison said he was temporarily reinstating the service after obtaining a newly secured SSL key used to authenticate his server and encrypt data traveling to and from the site. Levison defiantly closed down the site after the US government obtained a court order demanding that it turn over its previous private SSL key. In a statement published Monday night, Levison acknowledged that the shutdown caused problems for many users, including him
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