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On Wednesday 03 October 2007 09:23:15 Tom Potts wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/ripa-decryption_keys_power/ > If I send you some encrypted data and you accidentally read the message (ie > save it to your hard drive) and you don't give the police the decryption > key you don't have they can bang you up for 5 years! > Tom te tom te tom This started with the RIP act 2000. Note that is a year before the 911 attacks. The implications are particularly serious for banks etc. Releasing one key for a criminal investigation will expose any other data in the same store. It spawned this back in 2004 http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/phonebook/ Cheers Dave -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html