From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tansi.org (ns.km10532-04.keymachine.de [87.118.102.195]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:41:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-74-165-216.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.74.165.216]) by tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8984250006 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:41:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:41:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20090916214137.GC20202@tansi.org> References: <200909142004.49035.test532@codingninjas.org> <6842.57094185359$1253045311@news.gmane.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: From: wagner@tansi.org (Debian User) Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup, LUKS, plausible deniability List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:32:39PM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > Sarah Dean wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:04:48 -0400, test532@codingninjas.org wrote: > >>external luks header feature that Rick mentioned. dm-crypt comes with > >>practically every linux. Therefor, having dm-crypt installed on one's system > >>means nothing. > > dm-crypt on a system together with lots of random-like data just means > something more. Indeed. And the presence of encrypted/random data can be tested for with relatively low effort. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier