Lynx in Theory you may be right however in practice encrypting your data does not make you safe from the po po http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number6.20/ripa-application-uk THere are many many articles around the net in the UK and in the USA where courts have forced the key to be given. things have been done to get the key from 10 yrs in jail To mandatory hypnotherapy to get the key that way.