Re: British Legislation to Compel Encryption Key Disclosure

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

A popular phrase among cypherpunks ever since the April 1992
announcement of the Clipper Chip iniative:

"You'll get my key when you pry it from my cold, dead hands."

:-)

Cheers,

- ferg



-- "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:

Less appalling? :)

On 5/18/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Via C|Net News.
>
> [snip]
>
> The British government is preparing to give its police the authority to force organizations and individuals to 
> disclose encryption keys, a move that has outraged some security and civil-rights experts.

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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