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If digital locks are treated as physical locks, a warrant would compel you to decrypt your files. If you refuse, that is obstruction of justice. Also, correct m
by rohamg 13y ago
If digital locks are treated as physical locks, a warrant would compel you to decrypt your files. If you refuse, that is obstruction of justice. Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I think there are few forms of commercially available encryption the government could not crack given time + resources, which a warrant would provide.
- PeterisP 13y ago1) When properly used, commonly freely available encryption should be unbreakable even when given completely unreasonable resources (i.e., a Manhattan Project scale effort). Alternative methods (e.g. kidnapping&torture of everyone who might have access to keys and their relatives) would be far simpler and cheaper than actually bruteforcing proper cryptography. 2) There are freely available steganography/hidden volume tools that make it impossible to verify IF there is something encrypted - for example, you might guess that a hidden volume exists, the accused may decrypt N hidden volumes, but noone would be able to check if there is another N+1'st volume for which a key was not provided.