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 In <ARI.HUTTUNEN.92Nov11145925@cardhu.cs.hut.fi> Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi
 (Ari Huttunen) writes:


>How do you know he indeed is the molester if all you have is
>an enciphered *something* and lot's of suspicion? What if the
>enciphered *something* is a pile of old love letters? In this
>case you would sentence an innocent man to prison for molesting.

 I assume that the police would have some reason to so believe.
 These kind of cases are always difficult; the question: "Did he
 touch you--down there?" can mean different things to adults and
 children.  Then the adults can become irrational, and then that
 will influence the kids.

 But choose your own worst case.  We are discussing arguments which
 could be used to lead to laws limiting the use of cryptography.


>I always thought a man is innocent until proven guilty...

 The issue under discussion is the possibility that a future
 society could regard hiding information, after due process,
 as a crime in itself.

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 Terry Ritter  ritter@cactus.org