[HN Gopher] Deniable Encryption
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       Deniable Encryption
        
       Author : ayende
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2024-05-03 17:50 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | rented_mule wrote:
       | VeraCrypt's approach to achieve plausible deniability for disk
       | encryption:
       | 
       | https://veracrypt.eu/en/Hidden%20Volume.html
        
         | catoc wrote:
         | Obligatory response: https://xkcd.com/538/
         | 
         | Sad but likely true. (please prove me wrong, other than
         | creating fake data that's so convincing it will save your life
         | in any 'gut-wrenching' situation, every time)
         | 
         | [edit: don't get me wrong, I _love_ truecrypt /veracrypt,
         | literally use it every day]
        
           | pintxo wrote:
           | Not every entity that would like to access your disk, will be
           | willing to leave the realm of applied human rights.
           | 
           | Basically no level of encryption will help you against a
           | determined (and law ignoring, if they even have one against
           | it) agent of a nation states intelligence service.
           | 
           | But it will most likely work against your bread and butter
           | LEA employee or your local variety of the IRS/SEC.
        
             | catoc wrote:
             | Thanks for proving me wrong! Even if it's only for a
             | fraction of the people, you're still right for _most_
             | people, a large fraction. As long as you're not targeted by
             | entities above or considering themselves above, the law,
             | the Veracrypt approach will suffice. Good point.
        
       | teo_zero wrote:
       | This would be quite expensive to apply to whole-disk encryption,
       | as you'd need 8x the size of the data that you want to store.
       | Whether this is worth it or not depends on the threat model
       | you're facing, of course.
        
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