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unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) wrote:

>lerman@neuron.nynexst.com (Kenneth Lerman) writes:

>>David Maddison (maddison@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au) wrote:

>>: I wrote a letter to Steve Orlowski at the AG's Department and he wrote me a
>>: reply. He has given me permission to repost this letter to the 'Net for

>>: From STEVE.ORLOWSKI@AG.ausgovag.telememo.au Thu Aug 17 17:59 EST 1995
>...
>>Oh, and where do you suppose the keys to his house are escrowed today?
>>Or the keys to his car?  Or the combination to his gym locker?  Or to
>>his bank's vault?
>All of these can be demanded from you by a court, or the police can
>break down the door. In crypto breaking down the door is difficult, but
>he is advocating that the courts be allwed to demand that you give them
>the key.

What happens when the key you give in response to a court order
doesn't work?  There are legitimite reasons why this might happen,
some kind of corruption, bad backup procedures,  a user with a lot of
keys may even get them mixed up, just to name a few things that could
go wrong.

Do you treat all of these instances as though the person had just
refused to hand over the key?






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