Re: Why did White House change its mind on crypto?

[staym]

Generally, they'll just be recovering passwords.  Then it's easy to show
that the plaintext matches the ciphertext.  They don't have to reveal
where the password came from, of course, merely that it decrypts the
file.  

>If you can not reveal how you descramble it, doesn't that mean you >can't be asked to 
>show that it actually corresponds to the ciphertext?
>
>Scary!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ben.
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Mike Stay
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AccessData Corp.
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