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I thought remembered a court precedent in the US that ruled being compelled to divulge encryption keys was equivalent to being compelled to hand over keys to lo
by moxiemk1 16y ago
I thought remembered a court precedent in the US that ruled being compelled to divulge encryption keys was equivalent to being compelled to hand over keys to locked places (like a safe), which is historically required.
That said, I can't find such an article, so hopefully I'm making it up and we are indeed safe in our minds.
- camiller 16y agoI thought that also but then found this from 2008: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2008-02-07-encrypted-laptop-child-porn_N.htm http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2008-02-07-encr...
- Anechoic 16y agoThere's United States v. Boucher but case had a couple of wrinkles, including the fact that Boucher had previously cooperated with law enforcement so it was thought that providing a password wasn't self-imcrimination since it wouldn't add to the knowledge of what the authorities already had: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Boucher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Boucher
- pilom 16y agoNo legally in the US you are not required to give the keys to the safe, but they can drop your sentence significantly for working with the investigators. For a safe, if you don't give them the key, the get a grinder and hack saw, for an encrypted hard drive in the US they give it to the NSA (though 50 chars would be tough for even them i'd expect).
- pyre 16y agoThe NSA doesn't want anyone to know what their capabilities are, but I remember a case where they gave it to a university which threw a cluster at it... edit: 'they' being 'the authorities', not the NSA.