Fwd: It's time for PGP to die.

Johan Wevers johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl
Mon Aug 18 08:01:46 CEST 2014


On 17-08-2014 22:42, Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> The only time production of a passphrase is permitted is when
> it lacks any testimonial value.

And who determines wether it has any "testimonial value"?

That sounds like a fine legal loophole to pressure someone into telling
the passphrase. In those cases where the US government is actually
interested in paying lip service that it will obey the law that is -
they could just as easily declare you an "illegal combattant" or
something like that and just torture it out of you.

-- 
ir. J.C.A. Wevers
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html




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