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Re: Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Wed Mar 4 10:12:36 2009
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu, perry@piermont.com
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <87prgygosa.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:14:54 +1300
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>[Explanation of why courts aren't Turing machines]
Very nice explanation. The name I've used for this (attempted) defence is the
Rumpelstiltskin defence, for reasons that should be obvious (and at some point
I'll get around to finishing the writeup on this, which I get motivated to do
every time I see someone advocate the Rumpelstiltskin defence as a strategy to
use in court).
Peter.
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