Buying and selling root certificates

Thu Apr 29 14:22:48 UTC 2004

Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
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> 
> 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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