[Clips] UK Government to force handover of encryption keys

[Sarad AV]

This clearly doesnt work. All they will manage to do
is harass citizens.

Sarad.


--- "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com> wrote:

>   "It is, as ever, almost impossible to prove
> 'beyond a reasonable doubt'
>   that some random-looking data is in fact
> ciphertext, and then prove that
>   the accused actually has the key for it, and that
> he has refused a proper
>   order to divulge it," pointed out encryption
> expert Peter Fairbrother on
>   ukcrypto, a public email discussion list.
> 
>   Clayton backed up this point. "The police can say
> 'We think he's a
>   terrorist' or 'We think he's trading in kiddie
> porn', and the suspect can
>   say, 'No, they're love letters, sorry, I've lost
> the key'. How much
>   evidence do you need [to convict]? If you can't
> decrypt [the data], then by
>   definition you don't know what it is," said
> Clayton.


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