On 06/10/10 19:57, Ray Dillinger wrote: > a 19-year-old just got a 16-month jail sentence for his refusal to > disclose the password that would have allowed investigators to see > what was on his hard drive.
Just to correct this: the sentence was 16 weeks, not 16 months. The legislation in question is the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act of 2000 (RIPA), part III of which has been in force in the UK since 2007. This allows for a maximum sentence of two years for refusing a request that encrypted data be "put into an intelligible form". Reference here: http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/RIP_Act_Part_III Joss --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
