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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Kent Borg wrote: > Related question: What about a utility to severely damage files in predicable > way. Specifically, zero bytes at regular intervals in an encrypted file, > making decryption extremely difficult/impossible. Oh, and before zeroing the > data, make a copy of those bytes and scp them someplace distant. > > If using a 128-bit cipher like AES, zero one byte out of every 16, and > decryption is going to be pretty damn busted. > > Now, travel back to US, they get snoopy and copy your disk. No worry, they > won't make much sense of it. > > On arrival you scp the bytes back to your computer, run the damage utility > backwards to put the right bytes back in the file, and now it can be > decrypted.
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