On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:28:23 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
>
>OT, but the "You are now in France" attack, followed by the "You are
>still in France" attack, was a hot topic in 1998-1999.
> 
Thanks for the interesting OT info, until now new to me.

>http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19/74#subj8  You are now in France
>http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20/17#subj1  France allows strong crypto

    - - To supplement the current legal framework by the introduction of
    obligations, together with penal sanctions, concerning the handing-over
    to the legal authorities, when they require it, of the cleartext
    version of encrypted documents. ...

Yeah, right.  How did that work in San Bernardino?

    ... At the same time, the technical
    skills of the public authorities will be significantly improved.

The skill of breaking strong encryption would be highly marketable,
even to the point of being an incentive to defect.

>http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20/20#subj8  You are still in France

-- gil

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