re: #269 Bubblehead II

Haven’t heard of that particular argument being used and if it is or has been then it’s a load of B.S. You are allowed to be secure in your papers.

The reasoning I have heard used for a Court ordering a defendant to provide the password/phrase for an encrypted file or drive is that it no different than a safes combination or a safety deposit box key. Both of which you are required to surrender if so ordered by the Court. To the best of my knowledge this hasn’t been decided at the SCOTUS level with a mixed bag of rulings from the various appellate Courts.

What’s interesting there is the government could surely open that safe on it’s own. But I can imagine encryption beyond what a prosecutor could have hacked in a case short on national security priority.