David Davis' Resignation and fight over civil liberty

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:52:42 +0100


On 13 Jun 08, at 0811, PeteM wrote:

> James Cox wrote  on 12-06-08 13:48:
>> PS: Apologies for anyone who is offended by this- but i'm fired up  
>> by this! :)
>
> I don't think there can be any objection. The matter is very much on- 
> topic, since the police's alleged need to decrypt documents found on  
> a suspect's computer is regularly trotted out to justify any  
> proposal for extended detention.

Because, obviously, you can brute force in 42 days a wide range of  
cipher systems that you can't brute force in 28 days.

ian