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RE: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (AI mailer v .1 alpha)
Wed Jan 20 17:46:05 1999
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:27:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "AI mailer v .1 alpha" <tyme@dreams.res.cmu.edu>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <000701be44aa$ef337a90$06088818@zug>
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Black Unicorn wrote:
> > It says "handing-over ... of the cleartext version". In other words, a
> > power to request plaintext under warrant. Not the key.
> >
> > If you accept the sense in a law to allow law enforcement to seize
> > documents with a search warrant, then you should not be able to evade
> > the spirit of that law by encrypting the document. This is the direction
> > we *should* be pushing at: plaintext under warrant without revealing the
> > key.
>
> WOAH. Are you sure you know what you are doing? You're close to imposing a
> duty to decrypt punishable by penal sanctions (read jailtime). This is
> precisely the WRONG way to go.
Does anyone know if you have a safe in your house, and the police sieze it
with a warant, whether they can demand you give them the combination?
Assume it's extremely resistant to cutting with an oxy-acetylene torch,
and it would take them weeks or months to get into it without the
combination.
Justin
