Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?

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From: Piet van Oostrum
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:58

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>>>>> ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter) (TR) writes:

TR>     The police bust an alleged child molester, and take possession
TR>     of his PC.  They believe that the hard drive contains a full
TR>     database of young kids who have been *or may be* assaulted.
TR>     That database is enciphered.

Yeah and would you think he would just encipher it with a registered key?

Or think of the following scenario: Het isn't so stupid to put the database
in his computer, but he has it on paper in a vault with a combination lock.
What is the difference? (by the way, the vault destroys its contents when
it is forcefully opened).
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>

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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
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