On Friday 09 March 2007 17:54, Clemens Hintze wrote: > > countries. I believe the reasoning goes along the lines of: they > > have an > > urgent suspicion that there is evidence against you (the encrypted > > partition ), so they can put you into 'Beugehaft' (= coercive > > detention) > > As I understand it, this cannot happen that way in Germany! If your > e.g. friend are under investigation and they mean *you* have anything > to tell to help them (e.g. you having the passphrase to your friend's > crypto container), they can put you into coercive detention, if you > do not want to coorperate. > > But if they suspect *you* have done something criminal, they cannot > force you to help them to get any evidence against you!
AFAIK they made a special law to be allowed to force you to give out passphrases. That law does not take into account the possible existence of a second key, so as long as you hand 'em one key per encrypted file/partition they find, they cannot put you into coercive detention. But I2ANAL, so this is only what i read & heard. regards, Helge
