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Ross Younger ryounger+ukc at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:58:50 +0000 (GMT)


Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> What should torturing passphrases out of people with threats of
> imprisonment be called? Rubberlaw? Legalhose?

A friend once suggested that rubberhose (and, by extension, this scenario)
could be considered a "known key" attack against the cypher in question.
(In the original context, it cued visions of an armed evildoer walking
into a bank and saying "Give me all your cryptographic material!")


Ross