HackFest Series: TrueCrypt is Now Detectable

[Lisa Kachold]

Ah, you guys?

This is about the ability to determine if:

1) a header has been encrypted
2) a drive has an encrypted partition

etc...

It's a security issue.

Not so much of a political one.  That's OT, I believe?

On 4/30/09, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the US you generally don't need to hide encryption.  The 5th
> Amendment usually protects any key stashed in your head.
>
> There's been an exception so far in a case where a guy allowed police
> browsing, they found kiddie porn or so they say, the system got shut
> off, and he wouldn't let them back in by divulging his key.  A circuit
> court said he had to give it up.
>
> Lesson: DO NOT let US police search your stuff.  You can't then revoke
> that permission reliably.
>
> I do "in your face" whole disk encryption.
>
> Other countries including Britain and Canada differ, and that's where
> hidden encryption matters - or any situation where "rubber hose
> decryption" is even barely possible!!!
>
> Jim
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