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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: encrypted mail
Message-ID: <398@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 04:13:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  1 04:13:02 1985
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Summary: 

Lauren makes good points about the legal issues involved in passing mail.
However, given that this area is *very* new to the legal system, I suspect
that there will be changes in the interpretations of the existing laws,
or that new laws will be written.  In particular, I suspect that the
courts would look favorably on the "I didn't know what was there -
it was encrypted so I couldn't (with any reasonable amount of effort)
have known" argument.

Please note that I'm not a lawyer (nor is Lauren so far as I know)
so these comments should be taken as my (o