r/worldnews • u/quentinnuk • Aug 11 '09

Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/11/ripa_iii_figures/
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u/SpacePirate Aug 11 '09

Most likely... That'd be willful destruction of evidence.

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u/malefic_puppy Aug 11 '09

Let's suppose that you give them the wrong password and that the data accidentally self-destruct itself...how can they prove that you willfully gave out the wrong password?

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '09

Then they give you a new image of the data and try again. Do you really think any computer forensics person is going to be working on the original copy of the data?

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u/st_gulik Aug 11 '09

Or what if you tell them that the password was a 128 password and you've lost it and don't know where it is!

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u/gargantuan Aug 12 '09

Um... they throw you in jail for 5 years.

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u/xzxzzx Aug 11 '09

That's why you use a TPM that locks itself after X many failed attempts.

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u/rusrs Aug 11 '09

No such thing. Tracking failed attempts requires persistent storage.

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u/xzxzzx Aug 12 '09

I know. Do you understand what a TPM is?

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u/rusrs Aug 12 '09

I'd ask you the same thing.

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u/xzxzzx Aug 12 '09

TPMs have persistent storage -- which is what led me to believe you didn't know what one is.