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- From: ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter)
- Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.222615.26993@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org> <1992Nov11.152949.23374@rchland.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:26:15 GMT
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- In <1992Nov11.152949.23374@rchland.ibm.com> lwloen@rchland.vnet.ibm.com
- (Larry Loen) writes:
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- >I think if we consider the matter, legal scenarios involving
- >cryptography will fit the wall safe model rather well and we can
- >send people to jail, or torture them for their keys, or whatever the
- >social decision turns out to be without considering cryptography as
- >anything different in the decision.
-
- OK. So we have one vote for including wall safes in the bill to
- require users of cryptography to reveal information after due
- process. The District Attorney will take you out to lunch if
- *that* gets passed.
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- Are we really unable to convince an ordinary legislator that this
- would be a bad law?
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- Terry Ritter ritter@cactus.org
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