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 servic

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-down http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-lavabit-melted-do...