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RE: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed Jan 20 18:51:17 1999
Date: 20 Jan 1999 22:34:19 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <000701be44aa$ef337a90$06088818@zug>
Black Unicorn writes:
> 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.
Sure, because you can't tell the difference between someone who is
unable to decrypt (Sorry, I lost my key), and someone who is unwilling
to decrypt (Sorry, I "lost" my key). Encrypted documents should be
covered under our Fifth Amendment.
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