[Cryptography] hard to trust all those root CAs

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Mon Jul 28 00:02:53 EDT 2014


"Caspar Bowden (lists)" <lists at casparbowden.net> writes:

>In UK law, there is a Rumpelstiltskin Defence (and although I am not happy 
>with the result, I caused it to be put there and it is better than nothing)
>
>http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2000-06-28a.1006.27#g1007.6

This is somewhat difficult to follow, it's a discussion of legal minutiae 
around a set of amendments to a law? bill?, could you perhaps provide a brief 
interpretation for us?  Has the result been tested in court?

Peter.



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