The UK Home Office have just announced that they intend to bring the provisions of Pt 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 into force on 1st October. This is the law that enables Policemen to demand keys to encrypted material, on pain of imprisonment, and without judicial approval of these demands. There is one last Parliamentary process to go through, the approval of a code of practice, but as far as I know there has never been a case of one of these failing to pass - though a related one was withdrawn a few years ago. We will try to prevent it happening, the chances of success are against us but it is not impossible. You are not required to keep keys indefinitely, or give up a key you don't have, but the rules regarding the assumption that you know a key at least partially reverse the normal burden of proof. m-o-o-t will be there on the day. m-o-o-t is a freeware live CD containing OS and applications, including an ephemerally keyed messaging service, and a steganographic file system. If anyone knows of any other technologies to defeat this coercive attack I would be glad to hear of them, and perhaps include them in m-o-o-t. -- Peter Fairbrother www.m-o-o-t.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE