On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:29:06 +0200, Imad R Faiad said:
You are assuming that law enforcers are inept morons!
It is a matter of the law and the loopholes it has. IIRC, the British
RIP act does not allow to seize a computer but allow a police officer
to demand the decryption key for a message they have intercepted of
somehow else got access to. There is even no need to pass them the
entire PGP key over including the passphrase, there must be simply a
mechanism to decrypt a message they "own". This is also the reason
GnuPG provides the --{show,override}-session-key options.
Do yourself a favor, and don't ever use this technique
again, it is now public knowledge!
I am pretty sure that Ian - who is FIPR director and co-author of the
PFS draft - knows very well what is doing.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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