rsync.net Warrant Canary

Existing and proposed laws, especially as relate to the US Patriot Act, etc., provide
for secret warrants, searches and seizures of data, such as library records.

Some such laws provide for criminal penalties for revealing the warrant, search or seizure, disallowing the disclosure of events that would materially affect the users of a service
such as rsync.net.

rsync.net and its principals and employees will in fact comply with such warrants and their provisions for secrecy.

rsync.net will also make available, weekly, a "warrant canary" in the form of a cryptographically signed message containing the following:

- a declaration that, up to that point, no warrants have been served, nor have any searches or seizures taken place

- a cut and paste headline from a major news source, establishing date

Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page.



The current message is here:


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

2013-06-17

No warrants have ever been served to rsync.net, or rsync.net principals or employees.
No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on rsync.net assets,
including:

ALL San Diego locations
ALL Denver locations
ALL Zurich locations
ALL Hong Kong locations

(from http://www.ft.com/home/us)

EU-US trade talks launched
Paris furious at 'bewildering and intolerable' Barroso criticism

EU set to clear ICE's $10bn NYSE takeover
Green light to create one of world's largest derivatives exchanges

Rohani heralds 'new era' for Iran
Newly elected president pledges openness over nuclear programme
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD)

iEYEARECAAYFAlG/QagACgkQBzwoLX1vgGz6pQCdF1Hu7Drn7KsqJnCyD8lerJmD
bhAAn2yi9znKIivTjFf6s/j76oywYABW
=omW5
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


The primary rsync.net public key is here:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/pubkey.txt

Notes:

This scheme is not infallible.  Although signing the declaration makes it impossible for a third party to produce arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force to coerce rsync.net to produce false declarations.  The news clip in the signed message serves to demonstrate that that update could not have been created prior to that date.  It shows that a series of these updates were not created in advance and posted on this page.