full-disclosure - Re: Encrypted files and the 5th amendment

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Message-ID: <20110713003514.GP1848@sentinelchicken.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:35:14 -0700
From: Tim <tim-security@...tinelchicken.org>
To: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@...il.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Encrypted files and the 5th amendment

> > check out the link in the last mail, seems to be what you are looking after.
> > http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-volume
> > http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-operating-system
> 
> Thanks I did read the first link at least.  This doesn't prevent
> detection of *something else* on that disk though.

Someone pointed this out to me off-list:
 http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-volume-protection

So TruCrypt can be configured to allow the trashing of your hidden
volume, eliminating the information leak that I believed must exist.
They've thought this through quite well.

tim

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