In the US you *can* be ordered to provide a password. Though appeals are still working their way up to the Supreme Court, various courts have said you must, while others have said that you may not. See, for instance:
http://privacycast.com/encryption-key-disclosure-ordered-federal-court-fifth-amendment-filevault-bitlocker-truecrypt/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130425/08171522834/judge-says-giving-up-your-password-may-be-5th-amendment-violation.shtml
Thus, it currently in the stage where it depends on what jurisdiction you are in. I am not confident that the Supreme Court will side with privacy or 5th amendment rights.
billo
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 01:26:22 +0000,
Bill Oliver <vendor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, but poc was right in that if you have an image of the disk, you will
know that there's an encrypted partition there, and you can get a court
order to force the password. Since you have no fourth amamendment rights
upon entry to the country at the moment, the government does not need a
warrant to seize your laptop and/or make an image of it to play with at
one's leisure. Of course, even having a good password is no guarantee any
more.
In the US you probably can't be ordered to provide your password. If you are
transiting the border it is probably best not to take sensitive data with
you. It will normally be safer to use the internet to transfer the data after
you have crossed the border.
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