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Re: [opensuse] Cautionary tale re encrypted HOME directory
  • From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:43:18 +0100
  • Message-id: <jgfvm5$94p$1@saturn.local.net>
Marc Chamberlin wrote:

One of your worries, being forced to divulge the password is also
covered.

Somebody wrote a steganographic filesystem too, but I haven't looked for
it recently:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StegFS (pretty old stuff).


You can have a hidden encrypted volume within another encrypted
volume, which
requires a separate password to unlock. If force to "give up" a
password, you give the password for the outer encrypted volume. There
is no way to determine if an inner encrypted volume even exists, thus
giving you plausible denial ability....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganographic_file_system




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