Unfinished Business

[Owen Blacker]

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Simon,

Thanks for getting back to the list so promptly.

Much though I/we appreciate the sentiment behind your answer, surely
you can see that there will always be some honest, law abiding
citizens suspected of crimes (and, hopefully, later acquitted thereof)
- -- and that's before anyone makes any comment  about well documented
miscarriages of justice in the past.

We are never going to have a law enforcement r=E9gime that is 100%
effective and only ever catches the bad guys -- the world just ain't
like that.  Whilst, ideally, only Bad People will have their keys
seized, that just isn't likely to be the case all the time.  Innocent
people are bound to be accused of things they may not have done.

Notwithstanding the fact that, if Don Mafioso (or whoever) sends me an
encrypted email (for example, lets say, for the sake of argument, that
I am a completely innocent third party and Don Mafioso mistyped the
To: address and his email client helpfully encrypted his message to my
key as a result) then it is *my* key that you would need to read his
message, not his.  As a result, I am served a notice to turn over my
key.  One (hypothetically) "honest, law abiding citizen" with his key
seized...

(Apologies if I come across as patronizing, by the way, I'm in the
middle of writing Technical Specifications   *GRIN*)

- -----Original Message-----
From: Watkin Simon [mailto:Simon.Watkin@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 2:30 PM
To: 'ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk'
Subject: RE: Unfinished Business


Brian Gladman wrote on 14 June 2000 at 15:44

>Simon has been notably absent from ukcrypto as of late but I hope he
is
>still here as he has plenty of unfinished business to attend to.  I
will
>concentrate on my own unfinished business here.

>So I repeat:

>"Does the Home Office intend to publish details of the measures that
will
be
>used to protect seized keys in sufficient detail to allow honest, law
>abiding key owners to judge for themselves that their keys will
remain safe
>when seized?  If so, when?"

***  From exactly how many honest, law abiding citizens will keys be
seized
and why?  That's where I have to start from.

[deletia]

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