[YLUG] GPG and the law

[lupine at yorkshire-pagans.org.uk]

> Following on from last nights talk I wanted to bring the Regulation of
> Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to everyone's attention.
>
> Essentially the third part of the act says that an 'authorised'
> governmental person can ask you for your encryption keys (the
> private/secret keys) and that if you don't have them over on request
> you go to jail.
>
> I saw a video about this awhile ago that said that even if you don't
> have the keys any more and can prove that you destroyed them (e.g.
> taping yourself creating the keys, encrypting a file, then destroying
> the keys) you will still be sent to jail.
>
> Rather chilling I'd say.
>
> The only good news is that it currently isn't in force although the
> government are working to activate that part of the act.
>
> The wikipedia article on this is at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000
>
> There is an organisation against the RIP act at:
> http://www.fipr.org/rip/
>
> -Rob

That is rather an... inconvenient? law?

The next step then, of course, is steganography - hiding the fact that the
encrypted files exist at all. This is where large collections of anime,
music and teh pr0nz comes in handy, I guess.

xF,

...Nick