Justice Department: No Comment on Forcing Encryption Passphrases
Declan McCullagh writes on the C|Net "Iconoclast" Blog:
The U.S. Department of Justice won't say when it believes an American citizen should be forced to divulge his or her PGP passphrase.More here.
We've been trying for the last two days to get the DOJ to answer this question, which became an important one after last week's news about a judge ruling a criminal defendant can't be forced to divulge his passphrase on Fifth Amendment grounds.
posted by Fergie @ 12/18/2007 12:46:00 PM
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