Re: Spooks (was: a trial balloon ...)

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From: Ross Anderson
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 11:09

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hal@cco.caltech.edu (Hal Finney) writes:

>                                         Possession of unregistered
> random number tables could be incriminating evidence.

In Britain, it already is; you can get 20 years for possession of a
one-time pad.

(Or so an employee of GCHQ said in public here in Cambridge earlier this 
month)

Ross

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