On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 09:20:07PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 > established powers to impose a requirement upon a person to put > protected electronic information into an intelligible form or to > disclose a key which will enable the data to be put into an > intelligible form.
Interestingly there is a provision for a secrecy requirement, which makes it an offence for the recipient of a notice to disclose to others that he has been ordered to reveal a key or plaintext data. This is intended to allow covert investigators to obtain a key and continue to monitor traffic. However... ``Automatic tipping-off --------------------- Where a disclosure occurs contrary to a secrecy requirement it is a defence for a person to show that the disclosure was automatic and effected entirely by the operational software designed to indicate that a key to protect information ceases to be secure and they could not reasonably have prevented that taking place, whether after being given the notice or becoming aware of its contents.'' ( para 10.15 pg 52 ) In other words, if the software had a tripwire function that notified other nominated individuals when a private key was exported then the subject of the notice may not necessarily go to jail for ``tipping-off''. -- Andrew Bunting _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
