Caspar Bowden writes:
> And, as a result, the Bill proposes that the police or the security services
> should have the power to force someone to hand over decryption keys or the
> plain text of specified materials, such as e-mails, and jail those who
> refuse.
Nobody's mentioned the possibility of an encryption system which
always encrypts two documents simultaneously, with two different keys:
one to retrieves the first (real) document, and the second one which
retrieves to the second (innocuous) document.
With such a system, it should be clear that coercing decryption has
the same negative attributes as coercing self-incrimination.
As an aside, why hasn't anybody mentioned this before? It seems
obvious to me. Am I some sort of supergenius or something (more
likely the latter, in my experience!)? Or is there an information
source that I'm missing out on? Are people saying things about
cryptography that don't make it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
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