TrueCrypt's Plausible Deniability is Theoretically Useless (2013)

Re:TrueCrypt's Plausible Deniability is Theoretically Useles... by eximius on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:29AM (#7076233)

To go along with what everyone else is saying, TrueCrypt is meant as legal protection. Assuming anything more leads us to the ever-relavent xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/.

Also, there is no strictly dominant strategy in the prisoners dilemma like he says.

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Re:TrueCrypt's Plausible Deniability is Theoretically Useles... by maxerickson on Friday January 17, 2014 @11:34AM (#7076640)

I use encryption to store vaguely sensitive documents because it mitigates the consequences if my computer is stolen.

I guess that means I'm not a true crypto nerd?

(I think it is unfortunate how dismissive that comic is, exactly because of this use case...)

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Re:TrueCrypt's Plausible Deniability is Theoretically Useles... by eximius on Friday January 17, 2014 @03:06PM (#7078099)

No, that's what I do too. My point is simply that crypto only protects you from attack vectors targeting the data. If you are the target, your crypto won't save you.

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