[117245] in Cypherpunks
RE: ACTION ALERT: Crypto Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reese)
Sun Aug 29 19:54:41 1999
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 19:26:50 -0400
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From: Reese <reeza@flex.com>
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Reply-To: Reese <reeza@flex.com>
Jesus. John, I hope you are updating cryptome and building a page similar
to the JB and CJ indexes. Have you noticed me rambling through, archiving
for offline browsing?
Hi Jeff.
Reese
At 05:03 PM 29-08-99 -0400, Lucky Green wrote:
>> SEC. 14. FAILURE TO DECRYPT INFORMATION OBTAINED UNDER COURT ORDER.
>>
>> Whoever is required by an order of any court to provide to the court
>> or any other party any information in such person's possession which has
>> been encrypted and who, having possession of the key or such other
>> capability to decrypt such information into the readable or comprehensible
>> format of such information prior to its encryption, fails to provide such
>> information in accordance with the order in such readable or
>> comprehensible form--
>> (1) in the case of a first offense under this section,
>> shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined under
>> title 18, United States Code, or both; and
>> (2) in the case of second or subsequent offense under this
>> section, shall be imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or
>> fined under title 18 United States Code, or both.
>
>These penalties are of course accrued on a per-act basis. Each email you
>fail to decrypt would be a separate offense if this bill passes. Five years
>for the first email you fail to decrypt, 10 years for all subsequent emails.
>
>Let's see... There are currently 8 encrypted emails in my inbox. That's 1 *
>5 years + 7 * 10 years = 75 years in the federal penitentiary if I was to
>fail to decrypt my current inbox alone. Never mind all the encrypted emails
>in the other folders. A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that if that
>bill passes and I was to fail to decrypt all the emails on my drive, I'd be
>looking at several millennia in prison.
>
>For file or disk encryption, where each undecrypted would constitute a
>separate offense, the figures would be even higher.
>
>--Lucky
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