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There’s a canonical term for this: rubber hose cryptography. That’s when you beat someone with a rubber hose until they give you the key. It’s effective against
by api 5y ago
There’s a canonical term for this: rubber hose cryptography. That’s when you beat someone with a rubber hose until they give you the key. It’s effective against a wide range of algorithms and constructions.
- 3gg 5y agohttps://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- rocqua 5y agoThe technical solution is having very available, very believable lies. Something where you can "reveal" false secrets that decrypt to believable data by your attacker. This is generally hard. Because you gotta know, at the time of being tortured, which fake secret will give believable results.