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Perfect Forward Secrecy means that even if you want to you cannot decrypt old messages, since the keys used are ephemeral and destroyed at the end of the sessio
by ryan-c 13y ago
Perfect Forward Secrecy means that even if you want to you cannot decrypt old messages, since the keys used are ephemeral and destroyed at the end of the session.
- derleth 13y ago> Perfect Forward Secrecy means that even if you want to you cannot decrypt old messages Which means, if they're jailing you until you do decrypt the messages, you get jailed indefinitely. Contempt of court has very few limits in some circumstances, even compared to being imprisoned after being convicted of a crime: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1262859.html http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1262859.html
- onedognight 13y ago> Which means, if they're jailing you until you do decrypt the messages, you get jailed indefinitely. Maybe, but they wouldn't be waiting for you to do something for them. They would understand that there was nothing you could do to help them decrypt the messages. i.e. your encryption worked.
- derleth 13y ago> They would understand that there was nothing you could do to help them decrypt the messages. That's what I'm wondering, though. Would they believe you? Would they believe the documentation?
- dllthomas 13y agoHowever, unless there is a legal requirement that you maintain the records in question, a documented habit of destroying them is almost certainly enough to get out of contempt of court for not producing them, absent some specific reason to believe you kept those special.