The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the act of decrypting data is testimonial and therefore protected by the Fifth Amendment.
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This seems like the right result. I haven’t had time to dig in to the competing cases on this issue and I suspect that SCOTUS will eventually have to weigh in on it.Report