From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:01:42 +0800
To: "Mark O. Aldrich" <maldrich@grci.com>
Subject: Re: Opiated file systems
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Mark O. Aldrich wrote:

> One problem, however, would be how to keep the "decoy" data, accessible
> with only the ambush key, "fresh" in that it must undergo a certain amount
> of
> turbulence to appear real.  The two file systems would essentially have to
> mirror each other, one with the juicy bits and one with the decoy bits.
> It would seem to be practically impossible to just build two file systems
> as one would 'disappear' when only the ambush key was used.  Wouldn't it
> be sort of obvious that something was wrong if half the disk vanished?
> 

While you do have a valid point about the turbulance needed, I think you
could still make some reasonable enough errors on the fakefs. One could
simple have several "curropt I-node tables", and that would satisfy almost
anybody (the NSA doesn't do domestic work ;)

 --Deviant


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