EFF: forced disclosure of encryption password violates 5th Amendment
Suppose you've been charged with a crime and the police have obtained a warrant to seize the contents of a safe you keep in your house. American courts have ruled that the 5th Amendment does not protect you from being compelled to open the safe.That precedent doesn't bode well for this case. I don't see a qualitative difference between the contents of a safe and those of an encrypted drive.One workaround: fail-deadly. Automatically wipe the encrypted data if the password isn't entered every n days. With a small enough n, the courts can't move fast enough to get the data before it's gone. (Whether this scheme constitutes obstruction of justice, I have no idea.)