Former DEA Special Agent Carl Force and a Secret Service Special Agent were part of the Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts, investigation. Force’s official case file did not contain any private PGP keys or passwords that were needed to decrypt the encrypted communications between the two. Force and “French Maid” both used the exact same brand of PGP software, a free brand called GnuPG. Force denied making off with a fortune in bitcoins, claiming 400 of them were “at the DEA” and never received a 525 bitcoin payment.”]