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Subject:    [Cryptography] United kingdom investigatory powers bill.
From:       Jeremy French <pgp () jeremyfrench ! co ! uk>
Date:       2016-01-14 0:22:29
Message-ID: 8A6E96DD-A47E-4986-A17F-B2A83306D2E3 () jeremyfrench ! co ! uk
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I've been following the progress of this reasonably closely. It is the British \
attempt to legalize mass surveillance.

There was a committee today about it where the home secretary Theresa May (the bills \
sponsor) was being questioned.

This is a segment about end to end encryption

Q: But what if someone is using end-to-end encryption?

A: May says companies would be expected to take "reasonable steps" to provide the \
information required.


So far so good. If you don't have a key there is nothing you can reasonably do. But \
then it goes down hill.

Q: So you are not asking companies to provide "keys" to information, or a backdoor \
in.

A: No, says May. It is just about ensuring that, if companies are required to supply \
information, they supply it. The government would not need to have the "key" itself.


So the only ground given is that the key won't be given to the government. This still \
sounds like encryption that a communication provider supplies should not be \
inaccessible to that provider. Which I guess would mean email provides in the UK \
would have to block pgp emails, for example.

 Theresa May often sounds like she doesn't quite know what she is talking about. But \
her advisers do, I'm pretty sure this stumbling round technical terms is just evading \
hard answers. Once the bill is passed the home office will suddenly become very \
clear.

Transcript from here \
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/jan/13/cameron-and-corbyn-at-pmqs-politics-live \
its not the official one so could be wrong.

Jeremy
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