Regards that Home Office PDF advice document, I've done some digging;
11 March 2008 16:58 - Nicholas Bohm first mentions receiving a Home Office document on
UK Crypto
11 March 2008 17:38:37 GMT -
last modified date of
ho-phorm.pdf (using 'HEAD' request to Cryptome)
11 March 2008 18:02:53 GMT - Simon Watkin pastes the entire text of the PDF document into a post to
UK Crypto
11 March 2008 18:19:59 GMT -
last modified date of
ho-phorm.htm (using 'HEAD' request to Cryptome). A
cut/pase of Watkin's post.
11 March 2008 18:27:01 GMT -
First mention of the PDF on UK Crypto mailing list by Dr Richard Clayton
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