§ 18.2-152.15 Encryption used in criminal activity
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.
History
This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 455 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.
1999, c. 455.