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- From: marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: A new encryption problem?
- Message-ID: <726406434DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 21:34:43 EST
- References: <1060.517.uupcb@grapevine.lrk.ar.us>
- Reply-To: marc@tanda.isis.org
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- Organization: Thibault & Friends
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- In article <1060.517.uupcb@grapevine.lrk.ar.us>
- (Jim Wenzel) writes:
- ....
- >
- > He was calling from California in order to pick up the pgp program
- > from us. Seems that they are on the case of a molestor who encrypted
- > his information using PGP. If they can't crack it the molestor will
- > more than likely walk due to lack of evidence. This has caused me
- > some concern because we have agreed (volunteered) to be a
-
- Yah. Right. Quite a coincidence that this happens within days
- of an identical hypothetical case being posted in this group.
- It's probably safe to assume that Jim actually believes this
- brown mushy stuff, but...
-
- (1) The guy's not a molester if they have no evidence (isn't
- that what US law says?) It's hard to believe that a file
- submitted as hearsay (see-say?) evidence would convict
- anyone in the absence of something more substantial.
-
- (2) Why do the police need to get a copy of PGP? If the patsy
- used PGP, then he'd have to have a copy of it not far from
- the encrypted data. Could they really introduce decrypted
- evidence without proving that the patsy had access to the
- encryption software? Could it be that they intend to get a
- little creative?
-
- (3) Could it be that somebody in Cal. read Terry's post and
- thought of a neat way to put a chill on PGP distribution?
-
- (4) Is it possible that the call actually came from one of
- Jim's users who's more anal-retentive than most about what
- Jim makes available on his system?
-
- (5) Could it be that Jim's found a poignant way to reintroduce
- a topic we all thought had been beaten to death?
-
- Cheers,
-
- Marc
-
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- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
- Version: 2.0
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- AAUwpIUGyV2N8n+lFTPnnLc42Ms+c8PJUPYKVI8ABRG0I01hcmMgVGhpYmF1bHQg
- PG1hcmNAdGFuZGEuaXNpcy5vcmc+
- =HLnv
- -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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