You do not elaborate on what restrictions are being placed on requests for the encryption keys. If a court order is required, with requirments similar to those required to physically search a building (including forcing the owner to open a locked safe for examination of the contents!), doesn't this requirement (law) make sense? If physical OR electronic searches are too easy, there is a problem in that country.

Of course, requiring backdoors or centralized key repositories is NOT a good idea!

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