Hi, Reference: > From: Joseph Oreste Bruni <jbr...@me.com> > Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:31:13 -0700 > Message-id: <63b6c107-1520-484f-9069-bbf387251...@me.com>
Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/03/encryption_password_ruling/ > > Hi List, > > This article caught my eye. One of the things that I gleaned from the > article is that it's obvious that law enforcement (at this level) does > not have the ability to brute-force crack PGP encrypted data. Instead, > the courts are attempting to force the surrender of the passphrase. > > Apparently the issue has not yet been settled in the US. How are other > countries' courts handling this? There's about 190 countries in the world. There'll be many national mail lists & webs eg http://ccc.de & forums that discuss encryption politics. Hopefully this list will Not, & stick to just the international technology & ignore the politics & national laws, to keep the traffic down, & keep it internationaly relevant. Not that the politics might not be interesting for a while, but it could easily bloat the list trafffic. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail plain ASCII text. HTML & Base64 text are spam. www.asciiribbon.org _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
