Sorry, I was a little unclear. When I worried about someone in a cell being compromised, I assumed that through social engineering (like throwing in jail, serving with subpoenas, seizing property, etc.) someone had pressured or tricked this person into revealing hir secret keys.
If you know you're being pressured and can use a backup works-but-I'm-in-trouble key, that's a partial solution.
AAAHHH!!!! EXCELENT IDEA!!! Think about it. It's a beautiful extension to PGP, the "I'm-being-coerced" password. Seems to work, but deletes everything irreparably(sp?). I don't think the PGP coders will put something like this in, but the people in my RoD-cell will definately have it as soon as I'm done. =) -- Allan Bailey, allan@elvis.tamu.edu | "Freedom is not free." Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations | allan.bailey@tamu.edu GCS -d+ p--- c++++ l+++ u++ e++ m++ s n+ h+ f g+ w+ t+ r y+ "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." -- George Bernard Shaw "Armadillos....those are the meanest suckers you're ever gonna wanna see... But you gotta kill 'em the first time, otherwise they get this revenge thing in their heads and they come lookin' for ya......." -- (i got this from the 'zine Armadillo Culture)