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In article <1992Nov11.155632.29487@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>  [(legal) discovery] makes
>public key systems particularly vulnerable, since once they have your
>private key [...] they can read everything.

	[...] 

>Perhaps a smart judge would permit you to furnish plaintext instead of the
>key, though likely not, since you couldn't "prove" that was the real plaintext
>without revealing the private key. Maybe there's a way to authenticate the
>plaintext via signatures, without having to reveal your private key--dunno.


This isn't hard.  All the judge has to do is encrypt your message with the
public key and compare encrypted bits, if you've used straight public-key.
If you've used PK to encrypt a DES key, then all you have to surrender
is the DES key and the judge can do the body decryption.

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