> [the fourth amendment] If a warrant is issued, the government has the right to search and seize under the forth. My argument is that they may search for and

> [the fourth amendment] If a warrant is issued, the government has the right to search and seize under the forth. My argument is that they may search for and/or seize the physical medium containing the data. If I encrypted that data — on a disk, a piece of paper, a network connection —, the question, I think, is why should I, a citizen, tell you, the government, the key with which I encrypted that data? As a citizen, I am not required to speak just because it might (or even will) help a government investigation. Likewise, I don't see why I should be required to divulge a key. Especially if there isn't yet a crime that people know to have been committed. In other words: [No person] shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself