On 23 July 2010 23:08, Ted Smith <ted...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Tell that one to my wife though. LoL --Andre _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users