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Re: fyi: Deniable File System - Rubberhose
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joachim Strombergson)
Thu May 4 09:40:39 2006
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 04:34:53 +0200
From: Joachim Strombergson <joachim@strombergson.com>
To: Ivan Krstic <krstic@fas.harvard.edu>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Ivan Krstic wrote:
> Owen Blacker wrote:
>> I wanted to create a file system that was
>> deniable: where encrypted files looked like random noise, and where it
>> was impossible to prove either the existence or non-existence of
>> encrypted files.
>
> I spent some time thinking about this a few years back:
>
> http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/15520
>
> Rubberhose was one of the things that came up, along with StegFS and
> BestCrypt. Unfortunately, it seems like Rubberhose hasn't seen work in
> over 5 years.
>
What you want instead is Truecrypt:
http://www.truecrypt.org/
Does what Rubberhose does/did and more. And yes, actively maintained -
the latest version was released April 17, 2006.
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