[Gllug] Phone scam?

[Alistair Mann]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

>  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".

Or a 1.4Gb file called "insurance.aes256"?

Cheers,
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Alistair Mann
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