Rubberhose (file system)

Rubber Hose is a cryptographic archiving system, which was developed for the purpose of plausible deniability. It can contain multiple separately encrypted file systems (so-called " aspects" ), where their existence can only be proven if one has the correct cryptographic key.

The name "Rubber Hose" ( German: " rubber hose " ) refers to the euphemistic term " rubber hose cryptanalysis ", which refers to the obtaining cryptographic keys using torture.

The software was originally developed for human rights groups in dictatorships in the Third World, but was often such as recommended for use in other countries, the United Kingdom, because you can be forced there by the British telecommunications surveillance law under threat of imprisonment, his passwords or cryptographic key to divulge.

It was released in the source code and released for free use for non-commercial, academic or humanitarian purposes.

History

The project was started in 1997 by Julian Assange and developed from 1999 onwards with Suelette Dreyfus and Ralf Weinmann. Rubber Hose is no longer being developed, but is available for Linux kernel 2.2, NetBSD and FreeBSD. The published in October 2000, the latest available version 0.8.3 still has the alpha status. Since mid- 2004, the original project site is no longer available under rubberhose.org. The concept was taken up with TrueCrypt, which, with its so-called " hidden partition " and " hidden operating systems " and the like Anything more offers.