[Gllug] Phone scam?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:39:51PM +0100, Dennis Furey wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 12:49:40AM +0100, Steve Parker wrote:
> > under RIPA, you would be obliged to provide the keys
> > or face a (2 year?) custodial sentence. And if you told your
> > employers that you had done so, you would also do time.
> > 
> > A marvellous law making us techies responsible for the data that we
> > have no control over, other than our professional responsibility to
> > encrypt it. 
> 
> Could you meet your obligation under this law by telling the police
> that the disk partition was encrypted with a one-time pad, and
> providing them a "key" consisting of the one-time pad that "decrypts"
> it to the plain text of your choice (which would be trivial to
> construct)?

It's certainly going to be interesting to see what happens the first
time someone gets caught in customs carrying a large amount of
/dev/random output named "Secret.Plans.for.World.Domination".

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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