Re: You can be forced to turn over your encryption keys?

At 10:33 AM 10/7/96 -0400, Geoffrey C. Grabow wrote:

I thought we had a 5th amendment. Isn't turning over your key that may (or may not) expose encriminating evidence an extension of self-encrimination?

As Tim notes, this has been discussed several times. You might take a look at: Greg S. Sergienko, Self Incrimination and Cryptographic Keys, 2 RICH. J.L. & TECH. 1 (1996), <http://www.urich.edu/~jolt/v2i1/sergienko.html>. -- Greg Broiles | "We pretend to be their friends, gbroiles@netbox.com | but they fuck with our heads." http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | |