1993-09-30 - Re: misc crypto stuff

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From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
To: jet@netcom.com (J. Eric Townsend)
Message Hash: 58ed327b9e154a6157e0281f0bcdfee10447a35fcf0e01e4f953a0604057c466
Message ID: <199309301856.AA11463@eff.org>
Reply To: <9309301833.AA13178@netcom6.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1993-09-30 19:01:55 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 12:01:55 PDT

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From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 12:01:55 PDT
To: jet@netcom.com (J. Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: misc crypto stuff
In-Reply-To: <9309301833.AA13178@netcom6.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <199309301856.AA11463@eff.org>
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J. Eric writes:

> Already happened.  The fellow used something like PGP, if not PGP, to
> encrypt stuff to disk.  If I remember correctly (Mike G., help me out
> here) he was asked to cough up the passwords in court as part of the
> legal proceedings. (I remember this only because of the following
> discussion of 'can a court make me give out my passwords?)  No call
> for banning of encryption by The Media(tm).

I'm not sure which case you're thinking of, Eric. I know of no case in
which the defendant was forced to disclose his keys.



--Mike

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