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Re: Buying and selling root certificates
- From: David Lesher
- Date: Thu Apr 29 10:20:39 2004
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>
>
> On 29-apr-04, at 7:02, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
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> > The feds clearly have the power to get through or around encryption
>
> I have a hard time believing this...
>
> So what do they do? Send a team in to retrieve the key from your
> system? Borrow some CPU time from the NSA?
In the Scarfo case (a small-time Tony Soprano type) they did
multiple black-bag entries to put a keysnatcher on his laptop.
<http://www.epic.org/crypto/scarfo.html>
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