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In your case, you don't want to protect your data from (illegal) seizure and searching (since you also keep unencrypted BR discs). But seizing the key-holding
by sspiff 12y ago
In your case, you don't want to protect your data from (illegal) seizure and searching (since you also keep unencrypted BR discs).
But seizing the key-holding devices from your inner circle can be used by law enforcement (or an unfavourable regime) to recover your data without your consent, and you have no way of stopping them.
I don't know a solution to the problem - in the case you lose knowledge of your pass-phrases, external memory is a requirement and such an attack would probably always be possible.
If someone knows a way to have both amnesia- and dictator-proof encrypted storage, I'd love to know about it!
- Tomte 12y agoAt least they would need to seize from several people. And apart from that they can just seize my unencrypted home backup. Unencrypted, because I want to be able to restore the rest if a bit flips in some file. And my PAR3 tests were really unconvincing.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoUnencrypted, because I want to be able to restore the rest if a bit flips in some file. Is this a realistic concern? Is a bluray disc at risk of flipping its bits?
- Tomte 12y agoNo, I meant having unreadable parts. Sorry, I'm thinking too much about flipping bits and soft errors at work...
- rooster8 12y agoI've read that habits are stored in the memory in different ways than regular memories, and habits are more durable to incidents such as amnesia. (citation needed) Perhaps by practicing typing the encryption key day after day, you could record it in muscle memory and it would be amnesia proof. Or perhaps you could invent a unique hand-dance (think hand-jive) and practice it daily, and you could write a program that could decode the sequence into a key.
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