It shouldn&#x27;t be any different.  In fact there have been court cases in which individuals have been compelled to provide decryption keys for encrypted disks.<p>The difference here is that the government wants vastly <i>more</i> access in the digital world than they have in the analog world.  It&#x27;s like asking all safe makers to include a secret combination, unknown to the safe&#x27;s owner, that can also be used to unlock the safe.