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Good point! But the key was either something a person had to memorize or a physical object. So it comes down to questioning (which goes back to the 5th amendmen
by Tloewald 11y ago
Good point! But the key was either something a person had to memorize or a physical object. So it comes down to questioning (which goes back to the 5th amendment) or search and seizure (which is what the 4th amendment is clearly about).
In any event, both the impenetrability of strong encryption and the scope (the value of the data that can be encrypted) are perhaps further beyond hand-executed codes than an atom bomb is beyond a musket.
- TheCoelacanth 11y ago> But the key was either something a person had to memorize or a physical object. So it comes down to questioning (which goes back to the 5th amendment) or search and seizure (which is what the 4th amendment is clearly about). The same is true of modern encryption. At some point the key (or the passphrase used to secure the actual key) will either be written down (or stored digitally in plaintext) or memorized.