Lying and RIP

[Padgett 0sirius]

>A person who makes a disclosure to any other person of anything that he is
>required by a section 46 notice to keep secret shall be guilty of an
>offence and liable ... to imprisonment

This does not seem to require anyone to lie (overt act), it merely requires
them to keep silent. Of course now you must revoke the original key but so
long as the reason is not disclosed then...

Now if there were a requirement to continue to use the key even though
disclosed then that would be different but this is not what I read. 

Of course I am not that familiar with UK law but would not a requirement
for overt action (as opposed to passive) not to disclose have to spell that
out ? Consider if the key required a daily cert and it stopped being
issued. To require continued certification say by a TTP would require an
overt act which is far from a duty to remain silent.

How is that duty defined over there ? Surely there must be precidence for
someone who, through inaction, might have compromised an official secret.



      	A. Padgett Peterson, P.E., CISSP: Cybernetic Psychophysicist
 Anti-Virus, Cryptographics, & Antique Radio Researcher
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