“Lavabit founder Ladar Levison balked at the demand, and the government filed a motion to compel Lavabit to comply. Lavabit told the feds that the user had ‘enabled Lavabit’s encryption services, and thus Lavabit would not provide the requested information,’ the government wrote.  U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan immediately ordered Lavabit to comply, threatening Levison with criminal contempt — which could have potentially put him in jail.  In an interesting work-around, Levison complied the next day by turning over the private SSL keys as an 11 page printout in 4-point type. The government, not unreasonably, called the printout ‘illegible.'”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/

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