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It's also impossible for the key holder to prove to his assailants that he has provided the correct keys, so there is little incentive to comply in some situati
by wcummings 12y ago
It's also impossible for the key holder to prove to his assailants that he has provided the correct keys, so there is little incentive to comply in some situations, since you will likely be killed / tortured, either way.
- tedunangst 12y agoThe best of both worlds. Tortured until you reveal your password, then tortured some more!
- AlyssaRowan 12y agoExactly. Valuable if you want to ensure the confidentiality of the data no matter what - but you'd better really mean that "no matter what", because if the eventuality arises where the system's properties might be desirable, those same properties essentially spell your own doom. That and the disk-space penalty for the compartments (either fixed or stochastic) meant that, even in areas of potential forced key-disclosure, these systems didn't take off and are as far as I know mothballed and unmaintained.