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In article <1992Dec10.182022.9173@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>
>Iain McCord raises the possibiity that the police will "plant" an
>encrypted file, or worse, plant an incriminating encrypted file of 
>their own design.
>
>This is not a cryptographic issue. They could do the same with any
>other kind of evidence. One's protections against this are also
>the same, including the ability to challenge the 'chain of evidence'
>in court, the ability to introduce contrary evidence, etc.
>
>David

Oh, but it IS a cryptographic issue.

With a public key system you can be ABSOLUTELY certain that a particular
ciphertext was created with one key if you can decode it with the other.
Therefore, if the keys are not compromised you can, with certainty,
prove whether or not it was written by the individual in question.

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