Re: You can be forced to turn over your encryption keys?

[Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>]

At 10:33 AM 10/7/96 -0400, Geoffrey C. Grabow wrote:

>I thought we had a 5th amendment.  Isn't turning over your key that may (or
>may not) expose encriminating evidence an extension of self-encrimination?

As Tim notes, this has been discussed several times. You might take a look at:

Greg S. Sergienko, Self Incrimination and Cryptographic Keys, 2 RICH. J.L.
& TECH. 1 (1996), <http://www.urich.edu/~jolt/v2i1/sergienko.html>. 


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