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Re: Coerced decryption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian BROWN)
Mon Feb 14 11:40:22 2000
To: Enzo Michelangeli <enzom@bigfoot.com>
Cc: cryptography <cryptography@c2.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:34:19 +0800." <007f01bf74fc$104681a0$16006598@asiainter.net>
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:09:02 +0000
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From: Ian BROWN <I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
>Let's suppose that some stranger send me an unsolicited
>document encrypted with a key different from mine: how am I supposed to
>decrypt it? And can I really be thrown to jail for that??
Under the previous draft of the UK bill, yes -- see http://www.stand.org.uk/
for an amusing demonstration of this point. But the new draft says that you
can only be compelled to hand over a key the authorities suspect you "have or
have had." Still puts a horrendous burden of proof on you to show you don't
currently possess it, unless you use PFS all the time.
Ian :)
