2007-12-15 Court ruling protects encryption keys as a Fifth Amendment right

2007-12-15 \digital rights\encryption http://mises.com/blogs/crypto/archive/2007/12/18/court-ruling-protects-encryption-keys-as-a-fifth-amendment-right.aspx Court ruling protects encryption keys as a Fifth Amendment right &ldquo;U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the Canadian border has a Fifth Amendment right not to turn over the passphrase to prosecutors. The Fifth Amendment protects the right to avoid self-incrimination.&rdquo;   