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An unreasonable adversary, such as a terrorist group or something, could plausibly do that. But the legal system has things like the "beyond reasonable doubt" s
by bccdee 5y ago
An unreasonable adversary, such as a terrorist group or something, could plausibly do that. But the legal system has things like the "beyond reasonable doubt" standard of guilt. If the court finds encryption headers on your disk, they've got evidence beyond reasonable doubt that there's encrypted data on it. If there's only noise, it's totally plausible that it's just a spare usb stick, especially if you consistently wipe your unused disks and don't just have one conspicuous disk full of noise.
- brokenmachine 5y ago>If the court finds encryption headers on your disk Encryption with plausible deniability will not have readable headers. It will appear to be completely random data.
- bccdee 5y agoYeah, that's my point. A proper plausibly-deniable system will be indistinguishable from a disk which has been wiped, to the point that no court can reasonably accuse you of hiding files on it.