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Suggest adding a destruction password

Open scarpins opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments
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Use the destroy password to open a normal volume and delete a hidden volume at the same time

scarpins avatar Oct 09 '21 14:10 scarpins

@scarpins, provided that passwords for hidden and container volumes are different (and they must be for the feature to function), when the container volume is opened, the hidden one is random garbage, which is not really different from being deleted (arguably even better, if your definition of "deleted" is "zeroed out", for example - because there's a degree of plausible deniability when it's random).

It would therefore be helpful for any consideration and discussion of the feature, if you could described what exactly is "deletion" in your request and why do you think it's better than status quo.

alt3r-3go avatar Oct 10 '21 13:10 alt3r-3go

I think it would be a great idea to have a feature, that would just delete all encrypted files if a "destruction" password was entered, instead of the one to decrypt the drive

Avnsx avatar Dec 01 '21 00:12 Avnsx

This pretty much will reveal your data location by write commands interception or clone comparison.

andrew-phi avatar Dec 07 '21 08:12 andrew-phi