Re: [Tails-dev] About your persistent volume

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Author: arkmd
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] About your persistent volume
mrhijinx@???:
> His issue with the persistent volume is when booting up tails, if
> you have a persistent volume set up, tails will ask you if you want
> to use it or not. If there is no persistent volume set up, the
> promt will not be there. This could be problematic. Say someone
> (government, boss at work, ex girlfriend, etc.) obtains your tails
> usb stick with a persistent volume. As things are now, if they
> booted it, they would absolutely know that there is a persistent
> volume.
>
> His solution was to have the prompt always be there, if there was
> a persistent volume or not. Since it always asks, you could more
> easily deny that there is a persistent volume and better protect
> the data stored on it.


It doesn't matter ask if there is no persistent partition.
fdisk -l /dev/sdb (or gdisk, don't remember) will show the existing
partitions.

To achieve this kind of plausible deniability Tails will have to
create a valid LUKS persistent volume in every usb stick independently
if it's used or not.

Maybe Tails should fill the usb stick free space with an unformatted
partition. This way a user will be able to create a plain CryptSetup
(ou TrueCrypt) encrypted partition with some plausible deniability.

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