Re: Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop - CNET News

["Michael Painter" <tvhawaii () shaka com>]

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Subject: Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop - CNET News


> Reference below is an interesting article concerning a Judge's order to decrypt of a harddrive.
>
> Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop - CNET News
>
> URL: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10172866-38.html
>
> Federal court orders defendant accused of having illegal data on his laptop to type in his PGP passphrase so prosecutors 
> can access decrypted files.
>
> Thanks
> Terrence


What's interesting to me is that they've had this laptop for over a year now and it's surely had its share of 
'heavyweights' trying to crack PGPs passphrase implementation or decrypt the files in other ways.
I'm not familiar with PGP...does it provide for Plausible Deniability?

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability

--Michael