Should have used deniable encryption...<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption</a>
As far as I understand, this law was created to get very important information from really serious criminals. But if a person has materials that may get him into more serious troubles than 5 years jail-time it is in their interest not to provide encryption keys.<p>Or do I miss something?
What if I keep a thoroughly smashed memory stick in my drawer (just in case) and testify that:<p>1. My disk is encrypted with a key stored on the stick.<p>2. I smashed the stick a week ago (felt paranoid, whatever).<p>A sort of poor man's deniable encryption.
I've been using computers since the 1980's, and have had dozens and dozens of passwords. I honestly don't remember the vast majority of passwords I've used in the past.<p>Many of the passwords I currently use have been randomly generated and are stored in a password storage app, the database in which these passwords are stored could be easily lost, damaged beyond recovery, or to which I could forget the master password.<p>So, if legally required to produce a password for some reason, I could quite conceivably go to jail even if I were willing to provide the password, but just couldn't remember what it was (or if it was one of the randomly generated passwords that I'd never memorized in the first place but no longer had access to for some reason).