[117233] in Cypherpunks
Re: ACTION ALERT: Crypto Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Sun Aug 29 12:56:16 1999
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 12:39:55 -0400
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
At 10:50 8/29/1999 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>I have just been checking my archives and I have seen several different
>versions of text for SAFE over the past month. Does anyone have the actual
>text of the versions that they will be voting on? There seems to be some
You're getting ahead of yerself. The House Rules cmte will decide this, and
they haven't yet.
>encrypted data when so ordered. It should be interesting to see how the
>courts here in the US would handle this? If you fail to decrypt when
>ordered to do so what is the burdon of proof that at the time of the order
>you have the ability to do so?
There have been some law review articles talking about this. Short answer
seems to be if you're requested to turn over/decrypt info in a case when
you're not a defendant, you gotta on pain of contempt. Defendants have 5A
claim.
-Declan
