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This means that if law-enforcement officials could not crack an encrypted file within 24 hours - the time that FBI director Louis Freeh and other law enforcement officials say is reasonable for accessing information related to a crime - that strength of encryption would be illegal. The amendment set a civil penalty of US$100,000 for such violations.
Defence counsel: Your honour the FBI agent could have cracked my clients grocery list within 24 hours if he hadn't taken a long lunch break at Hooters Topless Bar & Grill and not overlooked that he was running his NifTY War3Z crAk3R v0.3 against the wrong file. Prosecutor: Could not Defence: Could so Prosecutor: Irrelevant your auspiciousness, the fact is the grocery list was not decrypted in 24 hours. Judge: I sentence the defendant to $100 000 penalty or in default 15 years at a federal re-education facility. Defence: But your worthiness it was only a $35 grocery list! Judge: Anyone seen my gavel? -- .////. .// Charles Senescall apache@quux.apana.org.au o:::::::::/// apache@bear.apana.org.au apache@gargoyle.apana.org.au
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