Letwin wants increased penalties for refusal to decrypt

[Matthew Byng-Maddick]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 06:17:27PM +0100, Owen Lewis wrote:
> Watch and wait. The criminal law has been in turmoil for well over ten years
> as various govts tinker continually with it smashing more crockery than they
> mend in the process. If GAK falls, watch for what comes next. IMO, It won't
> be nice.

What you (and any other advocate of GAK) miss is that now that strong
cryptography is out in the open, someone who is using encrypted files
to hide evidence of criminal activity won't be using GAK, and therefore
the government are left no better off. They still haven't got the
evidence they want/need, and the person goes to jail for a shorter term
than they might have, for not having used the GAK system.

So what have you achieved. You have a better watch on the rest of the
population. You haven't explained how this helps.

MBM

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