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Andrew Katz, Brethertons Thank you for yet another interesting and informative Computers and Law.May I be permitted to make the following point about computer cryptography: Since the technology is now widely available to enable anyone with access tothe Internet to encrypt information in a way which we are led to believe ispractically uncrackable (for example…