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Not without a warrant, which is presumably useless against good encryption. Moreover, the dominant view is that a judge can't compel you to disclose the encrypt
by law 14y ago
Not without a warrant, which is presumably useless against good encryption. Moreover, the dominant view is that a judge can't compel you to disclose the encryption key unless the authorities have already seen what was encrypted.
- superuser2 14y agoThey can get a warrant to pick your lock and install a keystroke logger, or bust in while you're using your computer, forcibly separate you from it, and download the encryption key from memory.
- law 14y agoRight, I'm not arguing that. My point is that it's considerably more difficult for them to go this route; they need to convince a judge to affix his signature (and his credibility) to a warrant by demonstrating the existence of probable cause.