On Mon, 23/05/2011 Ð 02:13 +0200, Arno Wagner wrote: > In practice it is basically never necessary to hide encryption. > Either it is perfectly legal for you to refuse handing over the > keys That is only true if you live in a civilized country. However even in GB there is a law that requires you to hand over the key, otherwise you are considered as a criminal. > or the presence of a large, random-looking partition or file > is already enough that they can lock you up and demand the key. That is not necessarily the case. Assume you live in a lawful country. They should prove that a random-looking partition contains sensible information. There is presumption of innocence. And you always may declare that you clean the disk from private photo, for example. However if a partition contains an indication that it is encrypted, such as luks header, and even prompts to enter a password, they can justly demand this password (if there is an appropriate law). So I still think that a bit of overhead to hide encryption may considerably increase security. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
