C'punks, On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Eric Hughes wrote:
. . . One solution to this is to give the passphrase (or other access information) to someone who won't give it back to you if you are under duress, investigation, court order, etc. One would desire that this entity be in a jurisdiction other than where an investigation might happen.
And one way to do this that fits in with my original post is via a pager-delivered instruction. Prior to seizure/theft, you would make an arrangement with an offshore "escrow agent." After seizure you would send your computer the instruction that says, "encrypt my disk with the escrow agents public key." After that, only the escrow agent could decrypt your disk. Of course, the escrow agent would only do that when conditions you had stipulated were in effect. S a n d y