[67551] in Cypherpunks
Re: You can be forced to turn over your encryption keys?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Mon Oct 7 17:27:32 1996
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 14:17:17 -0700
To: "Geoffrey C. Grabow" <gcg@pb.net>
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.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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