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FC: U.K. lawsuit may restrict Cambridge Univ' encryption research

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Crypto research under fire in U.K. suit By Declan McCullagh February 21, 2003, 11:34 AM PT

A lawsuit over possibly fraudulent withdrawals from cash machines in London could gag academic research into the vulnerabilities of banks' cryptographic systems.

South Africa's branch of Citibank, which is investigating about $80,000 in disputed withdrawals, has asked London's High Court of Justice to take testimony starting on March 3 from a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge. The researchers fear that Citibank's proposed secrecy order would restrict future explorations into bank security systems.

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