Re:Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitut...
by MichaelGG on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:11PM
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It'd probably be best to do this on a format that can plausibly have such extra data (assuming you generate more operational data than you do plausible cover data). An encrypted disk file is probably a good bet. So long as it's not too egregious, it'll probably be OK. "Yes I have a 64MB encrypted disk, even though my working set is only 2MB."
I've always thought the way to deal with this is to use a OTP scheme. If you have a one time pad that's as large as your data set (assuming we're talking about some reasonably small number of critical documents here), you could generate the cyphertext from your key and then generate another key that translates your cyphertext into something innocuous - grocery lists or whatever.
There's no way the court could prove the key you gave them isn't the right key.