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Re: English 19-year-old jailed for refusal to disclose decryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arshad Noor)
Wed Oct 6 20:05:43 2010
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:34:34 -0700
From: Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CACFE62.2020805@pseudonymity.net>
On 10/06/2010 03:55 PM, Joss Wright wrote:
>
> The .. Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act of 2000 (RIPA), ..
> allows for a maximum sentence of two years for refusing a
> request that encrypted data be "put into an intelligible form".
>
Five years, if a national security or child indecency case.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/53
Arshad Noor
StrongAuth, Inc.
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