The issue focused on how information that may have been encrypted by software in a thumb drive could be re-encrypted with a different software that would be highly unlikely to get compromised while in transit between the laptop and a destination, including a business or home. The problem is that in the two cases involved in the investigation, the FBI had no idea which of the two systems was in fact the public key for both operating systems.


The only things on the public key system at the time of the seizure that