Developed by Lavabit, the Dark Internet Mail Environment is a secure, open-source, secure end-to-end communications platform for asynchronous messaging across the internet.

Radically different from any other encrypted platform, DIME solves security problems others neglect. It's the only automated, federated, encryption standard that works with different service providers while minimizing the leakage of metadata without a centralized authority.

To support the DIME environment, we've created the Dark Mail Access Protocol—DMAP—and Dark Mail Transfer Protocol—DMTP—to replace IMAP. We've presented both protocols to the Internet Engineering Task Force for certification and adoption.