misc crypto stuff

[Mike Godwin]

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