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- From: cbarkley@alex (The DarkMage)
- Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.092141.26252@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Sender: cbarkley@tusol.cs.trinity.edu
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- Organization: Computer Science, Trinity University
- References: <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org> <1992Nov11.222838.27134@cactus.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:21:41 GMT
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- I think that this whole business of making unregistered keys illegal is
- somewhat foolish. I would regard governmental restriction on the use of
- cryptography (including making it useless by requiring keys to be divulged)
- as intolerable. However, a court can simply demand access to either keys
- or plaintext the same way it demands any other information. Refusal to
- comply with the demand constitutes contempt of court. If you think that
- the court's demand was unjustified, appeal it. I don't believe a new
- policy is required in order to deal with our hypothetical child molester.
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- Christopher Barkley
- The DarkMage
- cbarkley@tusol.cs.trinity.edu
- Reality is a State of Mind
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