Re: misc crypto stuff

J. Eric writes:

Already happened. The fellow used something like PGP, if not PGP, to encrypt stuff to disk. If I remember correctly (Mike G., help me out here) he was asked to cough up the passwords in court as part of the legal proceedings. (I remember this only because of the following discussion of 'can a court make me give out my passwords?) No call for banning of encryption by The Media(tm).

I'm not sure which case you're thinking of, Eric. I know of no case in which the defendant was forced to disclose his keys. --Mike