Charles Clarke's explanation of RIP related matters in the HC

[Bob Askwith]

At 15:00 27/06/00 +0000, Yaman Akdeniz wrote:
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>This is all interesting but more importantly Clarke states that "The third 
>is to make more explicit in the Bill the fact that we are principally 
>requiring plain text rather than any encryption key in order to get the 
>data that we want, about which there has been some concern."

I might be being a bit slow here but... I don't see how this works.

Under what circumstance would plod accept plaintext based on intercepted
ciphertext? If you don't have to hand over keys then, er, surely, you are
not required to provide a link between plaintext and ciphertext - hey
presto suspects get the chance to rewrite history?


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Cheers,
Bob.