Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:49:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk encryption; hidden containers Message-ID: <20080722204905.U78974@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080722185140.25c022d4@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20080718155624.GA2886@kokopelli.hydra> <20080722154742.GA43358@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <20080722185140.25c022d4@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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>> To locate them, all a cyrptanalyst has to do is to look out for >> regions on the partition with very high entropy, > > The trick is to hide the volume somewhere that is legitimately filled > with random numbers. > why hiding the ENCRYPTED partition at all? what's a problem someone else will know that it exist, being unable to read what's inside.
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