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Providing the combination to your safe seems like a closer analogy, and I believe it is protected from compulsion by the Fifth Amendment.
by bcgraham 8y ago
Providing the combination to your safe seems like a closer analogy, and I believe it is protected from compulsion by the Fifth Amendment.
- ams6110 8y agoA safe can always be opened by force. An encrypted file cannot, assuming a suitably complex password.
- philjohn 8y agoUntil you get to an encrypted file that has such a complex password it would take all of the energy and longer than the heat death of the universe to compute, it's just that you can't open it by force within a suitable timeframe.
- DuskStar 8y agoAn encrypted file cannot, given P!=NP (and a host of other assumptions, but P!=NP is the foundation), be decrypted. So require proof that the file is not decryptable by other means before you can compel entering a password ;)
- cvwright 8y agoSo citizens are being asked to give up fundamental freedoms because law enforcement is failing to do its job?
- TheCondor 8y agodoes the fifth guarantee some universal concept of mental privacy or does it prevent that information from being used in court? You can’t take the fifth before a grand jury. I think there is a certain presumption that the actors are gentlemen that the law assumes. If you feel really strongly about that sort of privacy, you’d be well served to not find yourself in a criminal court trial. There is both ambiguity and case law here.
- NoblePublius 8y agoIt’s not