At 09:59 AM 10/16/2001, Peter Fairbrother wrote: >The affidavit is extremely complex and hard to unravel, whether to try to >preserve secrecy, in the hope that it will confuse the defence/Court, or >perhaps it's just legalese, I don't know.
I spoke to someone a couple of years ago who had tried to establish a set of technical standards for handling host security logs so that they could be used as legal evidence, and ran into a stone wall at the Justice Department. Evidently they feared that defendants could manipulate any such standards to ensure that *no* electronic evidence could ever stand up in court. I suspect the affidavit is badly written so that it meets the minimum standard for the court while providing as little useful information as possible. Rick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] roseville, minnesota "Authentication" in bookstores http://www.visi.com/crypto/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
