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Which doesn't go so well in court. Oh wait.. forceful decryption of private keys..

• Wingman4l7 13y ago
  Well, supposedly TrueCrypt has plausible deniability, but I don't know if that's ever actually been tested in practice.
  • cortesoft 13y ago
    It would be impossible to know if it has ever been utilized in practice.
    • Wingman4l7 13y ago
      Well, technically, yes. However, if we had a court case where the prosecutor thought the defendant had a key for some encrypted data, and they claimed that they didn't, and they weren't thrown in jail for "refusing to divulge a key to the data that we totally know they have", then I might call that a theoretical win for the plausible deniability "defense".
      • cortesoft 13y ago
        The way the truecrypt hidden volume works, the defendant WOULD give up the key (it would just be the key for the REGULAR encrypted volume, not the hidden one) The prosecution would get the key, use it to decrypt the drive, see a bunch of files, and assume the defendant had complied and given them the correct key. What they wouldn't know is that there is also a SECOND encrypted volume inside the one they decrypted. There is actually no way for them to know if there is this second volume or not. http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hidden-volume http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hidden-volume If there were any news reports on it, the reports would just say "Defendant X gives up encryption key; no incriminating data found"