[5232] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: FIPR News Release on UK ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS BILL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Jul 27 10:31:35 1999
In-Reply-To: <000b01bed569$0ff83640$0100a8c0@director>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:00:48 -0700
To: "Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org>,
"Cryptography@c2. net (E-mail)" <cryptography@c2.net>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 4:56 PM -0700 7/23/99, Caspar Bowden wrote:
>*) No presumption of innocence : burden of proof on defence to show they DO
>NOT have a key
>- how is it logically possible to PROVE non-possession of key?
>- asking for a decryption key is not like asking for a DNA sample - innocent
>people lose keys, or might never know the key to data that is e-mailed to
>them
If you use a protocol which provides perfect forward security, then you can
logically prove that you no longer have the key. The question is whether
you can legally prove it.
Louis Freeh must be salivating over the thought of having this #$%^ in the US.
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