Re: subpoenas of personal papers

[sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)]

> 
> I just saw a news story that bears on one of the perpetual questions on
> this newsgroup:  can you be compelled to turn over your encryption
> key?  In Doe vs. U.S. (93-523), the Supreme Court declined to rule on
> whether or not someone can be forced to turn over his personal
> appointment calendar.  By doing so, they let stand an Appeals Court
...
> concurring opinion in 1986, O'Connor wrote ``The Fifth Amendment
> provides absolutely no protection for the contents of private papers of
> any kind''.
> 
> 
> 		--Steve Bellovin

IMHO, that still does not indicate that you can be compelled to
'testify' your key.  Sure, they can try to decript them...

sdw
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