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In article <1992Nov2.084229.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
>[...]But there's another
>situation where the case is different:  Encrypted record keeping.
>
>Imagine that Richard Nixon, in making his tapes, had access to a DAT recorder
>with an encryption chip.  Congress subpeonas the tapes; he delivers tapes that
>sound like white noise.  What are the keys, Mr. Nixon?  No, I won't tell you
>that, Fifth Amendment.
>
>Or imagine that Ollie North's famous deleted mail messages had been encrypted.
>Or, to take a recent example, that Caspar Weinberger had used a palmtop to
>keep his personal diary, and all entries in it were encrypted.
>
>All these examples are from the political domain, because it's those cases
>that get wide publicity, so all of you know about them.  But there is nothing
>unique about the political domain.  How far would investigation of the S&L's
>gone if they had encrypted their records, and had a right to refuse to reveal
>the keys?


when keys are outlawed, only the outlaws will have keys.
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