Ireland Shows US How To Do Digital Electronic Signatures
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7/10/2000; 8:49:48 PM "The Irish e-commerce legislation differs from the new American legislation and recently signed British legislation in that it offers strong, explicit protection to users of encryption and forbids law enforcement from demanding that users hand over their encryption "keys," the unique mathematical code that will descramble encoded documents or emails." Emphasis mine.

I still want to examine this in more detail, to make sure the Wired reporter got it all right... but this looks immensely better then what the US just signed into law!