[Cryptography] Rubber-hose resistance?

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Dec 19 20:49:28 EST 2017


Howard Chu <hyc at symas.com> writes:
>Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> I cross borders with a wiped-clean laptop and scp in anything
>> work-related that I need once I get there.  That seems to be a common strategy
>> among IT-savvy travellers who are worried about travelling with
>> NDA'd/commercially sensitive material.
>
>I do this too. But just out of curiosity, what do you use for ssh credentials
>when traveling?

A password.  That's the one thing that's completely deniable (when it's used,
as in this case, to scp something over from some random server at some random
IP address).

Peter.


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