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Re:Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms by nnq on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @02:00AM (#4875288)
do you how does it compare to similar features offered by TrueCrypt?
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Re:Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms by rattus on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @05:05PM (#4878862)
TrueCrypt's plausible deniability system is dependent on a passphrase instead of an auth key iirc.

Another likely difference is that truecrypt works.

Neither will stand up to scrutiny for the purposes of deniability. It's obscurity which is effective in the scenarios that the docs outline below.

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability

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