Re: And the legal issues involved in this would be?

[Craig Webster <craig () xeriom net>]

On 21 Sep 2005, at 20:26, Blue Boar wrote:
> Craig Webster wrote:
>
> > Even SSL protected stuff has to be decrypted at some stage so it  
> > can  be processed.
>
> Yes, and you'll have a heck of a time being able to hook every  
> arbitrary app that does crypto in the appropriate spot.  Grab a  
> copy of RAM every clock tick? :)

You'd have one heck of a time hooking into every little app that does  
communication to monitor it; hooking into the subset that use ssl  
would be very little extra work.

My point was that just because it's encrypted it doesn't mean it's  
unreadable.

Yours,
Craig
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