Yep that's true.

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/24/2014 04:43 AM, Dan Egli wrote:
> >> There can be multiple volumes and each password simply unlocks a
> different
> >> volume. But it's not the same blocks being used to store different data.
> >
> > This is exactly what I figured. Still,  it was worth asking. :)
>
> I always thought that truecrypt offered volumes within volumes, so that
> when the bad guys demand your password (because they can clearly see
> that you have the tools installed, and that there is a truecrypt volume
> on the drive, you give them the password to the outer volume, but the
> inner volume is really just random noise.  They can't even tell if it
> exists or not.  So you can not divulge any hidden volume passwords and
> they can never prove that the hidden volume actually exists or not.  Or
> you can have multiple hidden volumes.  So you can say, okay, you got me,
> here is the password, which unlocks one of the hidden volumes, that
> contains plausible stuff.  That way your really private stuff (and there
> are good reasons to keep things really private, not just because of
> social norms or guilt!), is never revealed. And can never be proven to
> exist.
>
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