This area of court ordered key disclosure is troubling. I assume that failure to do so would be punished by "contempt of court" much like a reporter that refuses to reveal his information sources. (Jail or Fine until the person complies with the order). If you have PGP encrypted messages on your disk which are encrypted to other people. Is this a libality ? Normally, you have no way to decrypt this data. After looking at a PGP 'Hack' which allows the message to be encrypted with a session key different from the session key encrypted in the RSA header using someones public key. Your data could thus be encrypted in a PGP message to someone without using the session key specified in that RSA header. This someone else may or may not exist. You may have created a key pair and discarded the secret key. It would then seem that you could be found in "Contempt of Court" because you could not come forward with a private key belonging to someone other than yourself. -tom