Legality of *non*-encryption
Sparkes, Ian, ZFRD AC
ian.sparkes at 17.dmst02.telekom400.dbp.de
Wed Feb 11 06:07:15 PST 1998
I heard an interesting new slant on the legality of
encryption today.
I was talking to a colleague who is employed in a law firm
here in Germany. It appears that under the current
interpretation of German law, communications of a
confidential nature (for example, contracts, medical
records and so forth) over an insecure network *MUST* be
encrypted to protect the Client. It is therefore a breach
of German law to send unencypted eMail, unless it can be
proved that every stage of the transmission happens over
internal (secure?) paths.
I will dig further on this - perhaps there is a useful
precedent to be established here. At very least we might be
able to keep lawers (and doctors) off the net ;-)
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