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If the police want to search your apartment, do you need to hand over the key? You can't actively prevent them from doing the search, but do you need to aid the
by linuxhansl 13y ago
If the police want to search your apartment, do you need to hand over the key? You can't actively prevent them from doing the search, but do you need to aid them?
Furthermore, good encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data, how do you prove in court in that the data on your drive is just random?
- michaelt 13y agoIf the police have a warrant to search your apartment and you refuse to hand over the key they can just break the door down (18 USC § 3109) and they often do. For an example, see United States v. Banks. There's no analogy to this with decrypting encrypted files - you can't kick a TrueCrypt volume open. And one of the main constitutional objections to the police breaking down your door is that they damage your property by breaking your door, and that isn't reasonable - but read-only access to your encrypted files doesn't damage your property. I guess what I'm saying is the police searching your apartment isn't a very relevant analogy.
- venomsnake 13y agoIt is good analogy - nobody prevents them from bruteforcing the AES-Twofish-Serpent volume. That is equivalent to breaking the front door.