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Re:Judge: Child porn suspect doesn't need to decrypt files t... by ReidZB on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @11:16AM (#5826153)
I'm not sure how such a feature would work or how useful it would be, for that matter. Maybe the TrueCrypt binary would attempt to decrypt the first X bytes of the partition under the "coercion" password and then check if it matches some known signature. If so, flip a bit in each encrypted block to scramble it.

Problem: forensics people can use a write-blocking adapter on the original disk and simply make copies to try out the decryption. So, the feature sounds both irritating to implement and (worse) perhaps give a false sense of security to a novice.

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