[Cryptography] Rubber-hose resistance?

Nico Williams nico at cryptonector.com
Fri Dec 22 12:26:16 EST 2017


On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 06:54:46PM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> I think you have to physically destroy the device.  It's the only way to
> be sure.  Carry only a disposable device, as Nico and Jeremy have
> discussed, such as a Raspberry PI and SD card.  I think you can just
> destroy the SD card, as I suspect no traces of information will remain
> on the PI itself, discounting 4 degree Kelvin attacks on RAM.

Why on Earth would you carry the SBC _powered_ through a border?  Or
even _at all_?  It's not a smartphone.  If you're not using it, you just
don't power it.  You don't sleep it.  You don't hibernate it.  You just
halt it, remove power, and put it away.


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