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2014 Virginia Code
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
§ 18.2-152.15. Encryption used in criminal activity
VA Code § 18.2-152.15 (2014) What's This?
Any person who willfully uses encryption to further any criminal activity shall be guilty of an offense which is separate and distinct from the predicate criminal activity and punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
"Encryption" means the enciphering of intelligible data into unintelligible form or the deciphering of unintelligible data into intelligible form.
1999, c. 455.
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