On 05/09/13 12:57, Jon Spriggs wrote: > On 4 September 2013 12:28, Nigel Verity <nigelver...@hotmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> >> I suspect that the solution fundamentally relies on denying access to >> encryption keys to anybody other than the sender and the intended recipient. >> The system based on page, line numbers and word positions in a commonly >> available book worked well for the SOE during WW2. With so much digital >> media available today, perhaps an updated version of that approach might >> provide a pointer. > > Thank you for the mail as a whole, you've succinctly wrapped up the > issues in a much clearer way than I could! > > With regards to your last comment (included above), just bear in mind > that in the UK, should you be arrested and requested to hand over your > decryption keys, you are required to comply with that request, by law, > under RIPA > (http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000/Part_III). > For many that won't be an issue, but just bear it in mind. > > Regards, > -- > Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs >
It gets worse? http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/12/in-the-uk-you-will-go-to-jail-not-just-for-encryption-but-for-astronomical-noise-too/ -- alan cocks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/