Offsite backups for the rest of us?

David Thornton david-FkEgs2FKm2NvBvnq28/GKQ at public.gmane.org
Tue Apr 12 03:00:55 UTC 2005


My goodness that seems bad.

This looks like a job for "Testing testing testing man"!!!

Now where did I put my "Testing testing testing man" tights and cape?

Oh right they are in the firesafe crate.

david


Anthony de Boer wrote:

>David Thornton wrote:
>  
>
>>http://archive.quadratic.net/software/rubberhose/
>>
>>Now with "Smells like deniablity" action.
>>    
>>
>
>This bit in the README looks like a fatal flaw:
>
>   "As such, a Rubberhose disk only be written to after all the
>   passphrases have been entered. Everything is works on a "need to know"
>   basis, i.e. each aspect knows nothing about the others other than when
>   to avoid writing over the top of another."
>
>Sure, you can mount your "plausible deniability" aspect with something
>prurient, but it comes up read-only.
>
>while(fs_mounted_readonly) {
>	beat_another_passphase_out_of_user();
>	}
>
>and eventually you know you have them all when the whole works finally
>becomes writable.
>
>  
>

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