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Story: Police want power to seize encryption keys
Posted by: Myles (Friday 18 August 2006, 1:52 PM)
It seems as though the law and everyone in it are chasing their tales again.
"i have heard something about this enciphring thingy, anyone know what it does?" someone just out of Alevels says "its to do with making your data so no one can read it without a decryption key"
senior decision maker "ohh we cant have that, we will make it illegal for people to hide their data! yeah that will show them"
The computer world then just moves up again and creates hidden ciphering, stenography,
Try true crypt, cipher your data into the protected partition, then protect that with meaningless junk in the public partition, when asked for the decryption keys you just give them the publicly available junk decryptor and they see nothing is worth viewing. I adhered to the law just not quite as they had hoped :)
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Story: Police want power to seize encryption keys
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Encryption keys are _public_ . This won't help th... Ron B. -
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That's an interesting point, thanks.... Graeme Wearden -
The police want powers seize encryption keys; why... Anonymous
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The whole question of encryption needs rethinking.... Anonymous
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Perhaps it is time that civil servants like Simon... Chris Goodman
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All they have to do is talk to matey boy gates you... pete
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So we are to believe that terrorists, paedophiles... Arthur B.
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Why can't there be more people like Arthur B.... Anonymous
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So we are to believe... Ron B.
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In answer to Arthur B.'s suggestion that... Ron B. -
It seems as though the law and ever... Myles -
I believe some years ago some Israe... Arthur B.
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Arthur B. wrote:
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I bel... Ron B.
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Nope. The police can't say hidden data is relevant... Arthur B.
