[Cryptography] Rubber-hose resistance?

Nico Williams nico at cryptonector.com
Tue Dec 19 23:54:26 EST 2017


On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 01:49:28AM +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> 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).

+1.

How are they even to know where you'll remote to?

Nico
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