On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 02:07 -0400, Faramir wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Ted Smith escribió: > ... > >> Deniable encryption is a useful tool, but it is not a universally good > >> idea. > > > > An interrogator as described in this thread is a movie plot threat. In > > reality, nobody is going to torture you for your key, because there are > > much easier ways of obtaining your cleartext or figuring out if you have > > a hidden volume. > > Well, I suppose in most countries nobody is going to torture you, but > there are other countries where you can't be so sure... Also, an > interrogator that doesn't care about hurting an innocent can be very > dangerous, if he suspects he is being fooled.
Nobody in any country is going to torture you for your key, because keyloggers are much less expensive than torturers + torturing equipment. It's much easier to just place a keylogger somehow and get the key in plaintext with no fuss in a week. There are dozens of other ways to do something like this. Torture is a great movie plot threat; people can easily imagine it happening, so they overestimate its likelihood. In reality, it is exceedingly rare for people to be tortured for their encryption keys.
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