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Computing student jailed after failing to hand over crypto keys

John H Woods Silver badge

I still want to see ...

... RIPA vs the claim that "it's actually a big block of random numbers that I use for statistical / mathematical / cryptographic purposes".

What if someone had downloaded the Wikileaks 'insurance' file? You don't know what's in it, and you don't have the keys - can you just prove it has the same hash as the published file? Or is it an offence just to possess it?

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