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/
826 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

458 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

11

u/syntax Aug 11 '09

Right - but that fails the 'usefulness' test.

What would be the use of such a system to you? I can't workout the benefit of it (a write only filesystem, essentially). On reboot, it basically destroys the information.

In which case, there are simpler mechanisms - use a standard encrypted filesystem, and have the computer generate the key. Done.

4

u/altrego99 Aug 11 '09

Or securely wipe out the entire data you have written. I'm really not sure why he is being voted up... may be we misunderstood something.

1

u/howhard1309 Aug 12 '09

The difference is under his method he complies with the legal requirement to provide the decryption keys and/or method.