HackFest Series: TrueCrypt is Now Detectable
Joshua Zeidner
jjzeidner at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 17:49:50 MST 2009
you remember the whole 'Cypherpunks' episode right?
one of the very early Wired magazines had an excellent article on them.
-jmz
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:10 PM, 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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