* Peter Fairbrother: > I forgot to mention that Pt.3 also includes coercive demands for > access keys - so for instance if Mr Bill Gates came to the UK, and if > there was some existing question about Microsoft's behaviour in some > perhaps current EU legal matter, Mr Gates could be required to give up > the keys to the Microsoft internal US servers. Or go to jail.
Well, if Mr Gates is a witness and not a suspect, such coercive measures are well within the legal framework of most countries. As a witness, you must testify. It simply does not matter if the information you are asked to provide is encrypted, or is stored in a database and needs significant preprocessing to obtain. It would be quite surprising if this was any different in the UK. So it's purely the self-incrimination part that is questionable from a legal POV. I think this bears repeating because we face a similar discussion in Germany regarding covert data seizure using technological measures, and the discussion focuses almost entirely on the technological measures. But the legal obstacle is just the covertness. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]