Encrypting to self

[David Swarbrick]

In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.980703191148.15287A-100000@flemming>, Ian
Goodyer <goodyer@well.ox.ac.uk> writes
>On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Ian G Batten wrote:
>
>
>This all seems similar to the question posed by David Hamilton earlier
>today in which he quoted from a newsgroup:
>
>>> In the U.K., you _don't_ encrypt messages to yourself at your own risk. 
>>> In the U.K. law says you must include yourself as a message recipient when 
>>> using public key (asymmetric) cryptography.

Not at all.

> Now, what I'm wondering is how 
>>> long you must keep such messages.
No such obligation.
>
>
>Does anyone know the current law on this?  Is it already law that I have
>to be able to produce the plaintext of any message that I send if asked by
>the authorities? Is 'encrypting to self' or 'keeping a copy of the
>plaintext available' already law.  Is it peoples understanding that this
>is proposed in the white paper? 

No, no, and no.

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