Reply to post: Re: Not disclosing passwords

How to confuse a Euro-cop: Survey reveals the crypto they love to hate

dajames

Re: Not disclosing passwords

Of course, if you sent something using public-key encryption you don't *have* a key which will decrypt what you sent.

Indeed ... so it would be the recipient of the message that would be asked to disclose the password (to the container holding the private key), and not the sender. The same arguments apply, though.

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