Fwd: plausibly deniable

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 02:00:15 CEST 2010


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Andre Amorim escribió:
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> The closest idea to Plausible Deniability for encryption (not
> signatures) is something like hidden volumes within encrypted volumes,
> which truecrypt offers:
> 
>  http://www.truecrypt.org/
> 
> This feature is also dubious, because there will be suspiciously
> high-entropy on the disk, and you are known to be using tools with this
> feature, you will simply be coerced until you've accounted for all the data.

  And that can be a problem... inside a volume encrypted with truecrypt,
there may be other hidden volumes... plausible deniability comes from
the fact that, without the right password, no one can prove there is a
hidden volume. The problem is you can't prove there is no hidden volume,
so if the options are "decrypt or die", you are likely to die, even if
you reveal all the info.

  Best Regards
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