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If you fear of rubberhose cryptography is well-justified, “legal problems” are a minor part of your worries.

I was thinking of “or else” crypanalysis .

There is this book, for example.

Interesting. I’m curious what kind of laws are frequently broken… at company level I know there’s a plenty of regulations related to health and safety which are here for a good reason when people are working with, say, dangerous machinery, but are silly in the office context.

edit: how many laws would a company break if a computer scientist replaced a light bulb?

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”—Cardinal De Richelieu

Yeah.