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The desperate need for deniable encryption
Friday, March 2. 2007
There is a good reason to develop Deniable Encryption. According to a blog entry of fefe US law enforcement agencies are allowed to copy your harddisk and to demand to get the passwords for encrypted files when you want to enter the US. Reportedly the border control is authorized to put you in coercive detention to gather the password.
So you need an encryption, that is not detectable or you need two notebooks. One you use to store your confidential data and one sanitized from all confidential data with only the files you need while you visit the US.
PS: Well, nice sideeffect, it would be very easy to put someone into long detention: Send him a long encrypted mail. But encrypt it with a secret key unknown to the person
So you need an encryption, that is not detectable or you need two notebooks. One you use to store your confidential data and one sanitized from all confidential data with only the files you need while you visit the US.
PS: Well, nice sideeffect, it would be very easy to put someone into long detention: Send him a long encrypted mail. But encrypt it with a secret key unknown to the person
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Okay, okay ... as several people have asked for it ... but you know my opinion.
It was a joke i wrote at the beginning of this year about anti-encryption laws like the british RIPA act, which mandates that you must hand over you encryption keys in case a law enforcement agency asks you for it. At this time i speculated in The despera
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