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That'd be some form of "plausible deniability" (although the term has a lot of different meanings depending on the context). I know it exists for certain crypt
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
That'd be some form of "plausible deniability" (although the term has a lot of different meanings depending on the context).
I know it exists for certain cryptocurrencies hardware wallets: they can be setup (but are not required to) so that one PIN unlocks the real wallet and another PIN unlocks a decoy wallet, which only has some coins.
P.S: people are probably going to point out the $5 wrench attack though
- fastball 3y agoIsn't that the benefit of such a scheme? You ask for my password, I say no, you hit me with a $5 wrench, I say no. You keep hitting me, I input the decoy password and you think that is all the crypto (or content or whatever) I have. $5 wrench attack works on known unknowns, but not well on unknown unknowns.
- ljm 3y agoIf your adversary is the US intelligence machine then you’re already presumed to be guilty and a fail safe on your phone will achieve nothing. People were sent to Guantanamo bay for much less.
- tomcam 3y agoYou’re so cynical. And by cynical, I mean absolutely right.
- plorg 3y agoIf they threaten to beat you with a $5 wrench and you refuse and refuse and refuse and eventually cave and unlock the wallet with $10 of Bitcoin they're going to hit you with a wrench because you wouldn't resist so hard over so little and you're obviously trying to be clever.
- true_religion 3y agoThat’s why you don’t have a decoy profile, but a real alternative. Maybe they can then steal 30% of your wealth and not all of it.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoAs long as a bad actor is aware of the possibility of decoy passwords, they have no incentive to stop hitting you with that $5 wrench no matter what you say.