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Article #1662Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
From: The DarkMage
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:21
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:21
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I think that this whole business of making unregistered keys illegal is somewhat foolish. I would regard governmental restriction on the use of cryptography (including making it useless by requiring keys to be divulged) as intolerable. However, a court can simply demand access to either keys or plaintext the same way it demands any other information. Refusal to comply with the demand constitutes contempt of court. If you think that the court's demand was unjustified, appeal it. I don't believe a new policy is required in order to deal with our hypothetical child molester. -- Christopher Barkley The DarkMage cbarkley@tusol.cs.trinity.edu Reality is a State of Mind
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ringer!alex!cbarkley From: cbarkley@alex (The DarkMage) Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography? Message-ID: <1992Nov13.092141.26252@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> Sender: cbarkley@tusol.cs.trinity.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: alex.engr.trinity.edu Organization: Computer Science, Trinity University References: <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org> <1992Nov11.222838.27134@cactus.org> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:21:41 GMT Lines: 15