[ctrl_freak]

From what I read, he gave up the SSL cert by printing out a hard copy in a tiny font, and when he was ordered to provide a digital copy, he shut down the service.

> At approximately 1:30 p.m. CDT on August 2, 2013, Mr. Levison gave the F.B.I. a printout of what he represented to be the encryption keys needed to operate the pen register. This printout, in what appears to be four-point type, consists of eleven pages of largely illegible characters.

And:

> On August 8th, rather than turning over the master key, Levison shut down Lavabit.

That was according to this article from the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-lavabit-melted-do...

[tylersmith]

How big was that key? 11 pages at 4pt is a lot of characters. I wonder what encoding.

[hornetblack]

Hex maybe?