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- From: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Why Encryption will Remain Legal
- Message-ID: <1dlctiINN4vv@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 10:01:22 GMT
- References: <1992Oct28.223959.23206@netcom.com> <1992Oct29.023531.7191@decuac.dec.com> <1992Nov4.235802.919@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- In article <1992Nov4.235802.919@qiclab.scn.rain.com> 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
- >mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Will do TCP/IP for clues" Ranum) writes:
- >>>4) The nature of encrypted data renders proof of criminal activity difficult.
- >>> How do you prove in court that a chunk of data is a message rather than
- >>> random noise [...]
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- >For that matter, if I was the defendant, and I'd been using some sort of
- ...
- >*that*, they can just as easily get the original plaintext to use as
- >evidence.
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- Or even, make up the plain text, calculate it's key and put it in you
- appartment, and 'FIND' it.
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