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Re: English 19-year-old jailed for refusal to disclose decryption key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Thu Oct 7 12:28:19 2010
In-Reply-To: <618B56FC-450E-4AD4-8F64-0B8961D94857@guru.at>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:05:09 -0400
To: Christoph Gruber <grisu@guru.at>
On Oct 7, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Christoph Gruber <grisu@guru.at> wrote:
>>> a 19-year-old just got a 16-month jail sentence for his refusal to
>>> disclose the password that would have allowed investigators to see
>>> what was on his hard drive.
>>=20
> What about http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=3Dplausible-deniability
> Could this be used?
Sure. And the technology used would have no effect on the standard used in c=
ourt: Is there sufficient convincing evidence that there's data there to de=
crypt (e.g., you used the system in the last day to send a message based on t=
he kind of information sought)? If so, decrypt or go to jail. "Beyond a re=
asonable doubt" isn't the standard for everything, and even of it were, it's=
as understood by a judge or jury, not a logician.=20
-- Jerry
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