Re:European Union dedicated questionnaire on the Encryption ...
by gregmac on Sunday November 27, 2016 @03:34PM
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This is one of the major issues with laws requiring password disclosure.
First of all, a truly careful criminal can use this method to comply with the law while still hiding what they are really after -- negating the usefulness to some extent.
Secondly, once law enforcement catches on to this, they can then claim that someone that does disclose a password actually gave them a plausible deniability or duress key, and they haven't actually given up the real key, and thus the innocent person could potentially be convicted for not giving up a password that doesn't even exist.
First of all, a truly careful criminal can use this method to comply with the law while still hiding what they are really after -- negating the usefulness to some extent.
Secondly, once law enforcement catches on to this, they can then claim that someone that does disclose a password actually gave them a plausible deniability or duress key, and they haven't actually given up the real key, and thus the innocent person could potentially be convicted for not giving up a password that doesn't even exist.