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- From: marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
- Message-ID: <20845593DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 01:25:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org>
- Reply-To: marc@tanda.isis.org
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- Organization: Thibault & Friends
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- In article <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org>
- (Terry Ritter) writes:
-
- >
- > Although the discussion of key registration has been interesting,
- > it does seem a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Discussing the
- > proposition on a computer network invokes an inherent bias in most
- > readers. So, suppose we give the issue a different environment:
- >
- > The police bust an alleged child molester, and take possession
- > of his PC. They believe that the hard drive contains a full
- > database of young kids who have been *or may be* assaulted.
- > That database is enciphered.
-
- They SAY they believe. Actually, one of the cops is upset that
- this guy has been fooling around with his wife, and he arrived
- with the encrypted file. The key will be "discovered" a little
- later. (Sorry. Unintegrated personal experience intrudes....)
-
- I have a program in my machine called PARK. It writes random
- garbage over my keyrings and encrypted files, and then itself.
- Can YOU tell the difference between random garbage and
- encrypted data? Are you going to send me to jail for having a
- file of random data on my disk because some cop "believes" it
- was incriminating evidence that he destroyed? It may just
- have been love letters from your mother.
-
- Cheers,
- Marc
-
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