Re: Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

2009-08-14 Thread Roscoe
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:40 PM, the dragon wrote: > encrytion is about maintaining personal and data privacy; it's not about > having a tool to break the law. Reminds me of when some in the US was talking of Law Enforcement Access Keys being incorporated into cryptographic products. In Austral

Re: RE: Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

2009-08-14 Thread Peter Lebbing
the dragon wrote: > And if you look at the cases reported, these are not system admins > refusing to divulge data, or even regular people trying to protect their > privacy - they are child molestors and wanna-be terrorists. If I read the news report at that link, I see the following: > The form

Re: Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

2009-08-14 Thread Brian Mearns
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: [clip] > http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11556 > > Not entirely on topic, but for those using GnuPG (or other encryption > software), you should always keep abreast of the encryption laws of your > country. [clip] Has everyone seen the

Re: Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

2009-08-14 Thread Brian Mearns
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:40 AM, the dragon wrote: > > oops, didn't reply all... > > And if you look at the cases reported, these are not system admins refusing > to divulge data, or even regular people trying to protect their privacy - > they are child molestors and wanna-be terrorists. > > encr

Re: Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

2009-08-14 Thread Harry RIckards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Mearns wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: > [clip] >> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11556 >> >> Not entirely on topic, but for those using GnuPG (or other encryption >> software), you should always keep abre

Re: Transferring GnuPG accounts

2009-08-14 Thread Philipp Schafft
reflum, On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 17:15 +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:45:07PM -0400, David Shaw wrote: > > On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Adam Bogacki wrote: > > > > >Hi, Having recently set up lenny on a new box, I copied > > >the contents of ~/.gnupg from the old etch box to