[9669] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Scarfo "keylogger", PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith at Secure Computing)
Wed Oct 17 12:28:49 2001
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:09:57 -0500
To: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>,
David Wagner <daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu>,
<cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
From: Rick Smith at Secure Computing <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>
In-Reply-To: <B7F209CF.ED2C%peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
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At 09:59 AM 10/16/2001, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>The affidavit is extremely complex and hard to unravel, whether to try to
>preserve secrecy, in the hope that it will confuse the defence/Court, or
>perhaps it's just legalese, I don't know.
I spoke to someone a couple of years ago who had tried to establish a set
of technical standards for handling host security logs so that they could
be used as legal evidence, and ran into a stone wall at the Justice
Department. Evidently they feared that defendants could manipulate any such
standards to ensure that *no* electronic evidence could ever stand up in court.
I suspect the affidavit is badly written so that it meets the minimum
standard for the court while providing as little useful information as
possible.
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com roseville, minnesota
"Authentication" in bookstores http://www.visi.com/crypto/
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