20three » Encryption http://www.20three.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:33:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Section 49 http://www.20three.com/2009/08/section-49/ http://www.20three.com/2009/08/section-49/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:35:59 +0000 g http://www.20three.com/?p=391 Disclosure of keys.  Under UK law you can be issued with a Section 49 by the authorities to decode and hand over any encrypted data as plain text.  Two people recently have been charged for failing to decode their data, and it is unclear of what original charges they were arrested on.

There is an article at the Register regarding this.

Also here is some information from the government web-site .

It is an offence for a person who has been given a notice to knowingly fail to disclose the information required.

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