Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government

In an article noted in Slashdot, a court document shows that the private email service Hushmail has been cooperating with the police by turning over user email.

Although claiming to offer unreadable email because it uses PGP encryption technology and a proprietary key management system that is supposed to ensure that only the sender and receiver and read email, Canadian company Hushmail has apparently actually been disclosing keys to American authorities.

The full article, dated November 16th, appears in iTnews.