What happens when I ask for you to produce the password required by this super highly technical algorithm (insert lots of jargon to make the jury's eyes glaze over) called xor which will take the given file and turn it into another file that contains something illegal? Can you prove there isn't a password? Can you prove they didn't forget the password? Should forgetting a password for an encrypted file containing unknown material be cause for a life sentence?
I wonder how could one could be safe against the next hypothetical situation.
Lets suppose that there is someone motivated enough to distroy you. This people has months to mess with your system and substitute your usual decrypt command with a slightly modified version that 1) decrypts a file as usual when entered the right password and 2) runs a last extra line of code that inserts a child porn image or short video in the file. The timestamp of the decrypted file was changed to now. So you will not suspect that the file has been significatively modified also in the same operation. If the decrypt executable is closed and not easily available to examine... what could you do to prove your innocence?
Is possible for the jury (or the lawyer) to re-encrypt the file again exactly as in the first time to detect if the file was changed?
