HackFest Series: TrueCrypt is Now Detectable

[Ryan Rix]

detection != decryption.

I'm filing this one in the FUD/misinformation department.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> 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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