[Gllug] Phone scam?

[Dennis Furey]

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)?

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