Encrypting to self

[Ian Goodyer]

On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Carl Ellison wrote:

> At 08:43 PM 7/3/98 +0100, T Bruce Tober wrote:
> >According to David Swarbrick it is law that you must produce plaintext
> >of any computer file upon request (or warrant?). I will copy your
> >message to him if you like and ask him to respond and will post that
> >here if he does. Let me know if you want me to.

Yes, please get his opinion.
 
> And if I e-mail you a file of random numbers? ..or have a file of rannos on 
> my disk?

I suspect when they come for you they will say "decrypt this file" and you
will say "I can't it is just random gibberish" and they will say "Decrypt
it or we will put you in prison for contempt".  You would probably have to
prove somehow that they were just random numbers I suspect.  Probably you
would have to tell the jury why you wanted to put random numbers on your
computer and convince them that you haven't made your encrypted data look
like random numbers.  Could be difficult.  What do you think?

ian