[12595] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Gov demanding PGP key.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Fancher)
Mon May 23 21:54:33 1994
From: bruce@phantom.com (Bruce Fancher)
To: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 15:04:59 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: eff-mail-com-priv@eff.org
In-Reply-To: <2rl8ga$are@eff.org> from "Carl M. Kadie" at May 21, 94 11:14:18 am
[Carl M. Kadie] has written:
|
| bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
|
| [...]
| >there was a case of a child molester who had encrypted a file (called,
| >ominously, "diary") with PGP and they (da gummint) were trying to get
| >the encryption code he used for that particular document.
| [...]
|
| Contrary to what the NSA would like us to believe this case as nothing
| to do with public key cryptography. The alledged molester could have
| just as easily used triple-DES, a private-key scheme.
|
| - Carl
|
| See ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/cfp_94_sterling.speech.
| --
| Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
| =Email: kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
| =URL: <http://www.eff.org/CAF/>, <ftp://ftp.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/kadie/> =
|
The proper way to handle this is with a subponea. And if the alledged
child molester refuses to comply then he can sit in jail until he does,
just like any other subponea.
