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Would be better to have a false volume that contains boring but realistic files without the correct password or trick to unlock.
by datadrivenangel 3y ago
Would be better to have a false volume that contains boring but realistic files without the correct password or trick to unlock.
- oigursh 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_(file_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_(file_system)
- mike_hock 3y agoUnfortunately, it doesn't protect against Rubberhose cryptanalysis.
- simbolit 3y agoI think that is a wrong take. Rubberhose FS does protect you from rubberhose cryptanalysis. That is the point. You can argue, that it over-protects you, which might be just as or even more dangerous, and that is a fair criticism. But I don't see how you can argue that it "doesn't protect" you.
- mike_hock 3y agoIt doesn't protect you from rubberhose cryptanalysis being performed on you. It might protect the data if you can resist revealing the ultimate secret until death.
- simbolit 3y agoI now see how you can argue that it doesn't protect you, in a very personal meaning of you. Then, is there anything that can protect __you__ from rubber hose cryptanalysis in this sense? If not, what does my parent comment even mean?
- mike_hock 3y agoWell, rubberhose cryptanalysis isn't cryptanalysis. Once you start discussing it, you're not discussing cryptography anymore. There's no cryptosystem that can protect you from it.
- toast0 3y agoIf you want your life protected from the rubber hose, you need to be able to allow access to the data. But, that doesn't necessarily protect your life: if they don't like the data they see, then they'll keep trying to extract more keys. If you want your data to be safe from the rubber hose, you need to have inconvenient access requirements. If your laptop can only be unlocked when 5 keys are turned 'simultaneously', and the keys are held by the ambassadors to the UN with security council vetos, that's going to be hard to accomplish for you, and likely difficult for any one else. Any one of the ambassadors could plausibly lose their key, and then the data is gone, etc.
- waynesonfire 3y agoVeracrypt supports this, called hidden volume.
- rblatz 3y agoI was thinking along the lines of setting the highest bit on the address line to either 1 or 0 based on the resistance, and programming the device to report half the capacity of the nand chip.