Rubber pants

Rubberhose is a cryptographic archive system that was developed for the purpose of credible deniability . It can contain several separately encrypted file systems (so-called "aspects"), whereby their existence can only be proven if one has the correct cryptographic key .

The name "Rubberhose" (German: "rubber hose") refers to the euphemistic term " rubber hose cryptanalysis ", which describes the acquisition of cryptographic keys through torture.

The software was originally developed for human rights groups in dictatorships in the third world , but was also often recommended for use in other countries such as the United Kingdom , because under the British Telecommunications Surveillance Act , you can be forced to use your passwords or cryptographic ones under threat of prison sentence To reveal the key.

It was published in 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 in 1999 together with Suelette Dreyfus and Ralf Weinmann. Rubberhose is no longer being developed, but is available for Linux kernel 2.2, NetBSD and FreeBSD . The last available version 0.8.3, released in October 2000, still has alpha status . Since mid-2004 the original project website at rubberhose.org is no longer available. The concept was taken up by TrueCrypt , which offers similar and more extensive options with its so-called “hidden volumes” and “hidden operating systems”.

Web links

Rubberhose (mirror page) ( Memento from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Suelette Dreyfus: The Idiot Savants' Guide to Rubberhose. Archived from the original on February 6, 2004 ; accessed on February 24, 2011 .
↑ Great Britain: Password or five years in prison, report from October 8, 2007 on heise.de. Retrieved on August 17, 2012 (German).
^ Licensing. Archived from the original on February 6, 2004 ; accessed on March 1, 2011 (English).
↑ Marcel Rosenbach , Holger Stark : Public enemy WikiLeaks. How a group of net activists challenge the most powerful nations in the world. P. 51f. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04518-8 .
↑ rubberhose.org/ ( Memento from March 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive )

[1] Suelette Dreyfus: The Idiot Savants' Guide to Rubberhose. Archived from the original on February 6, 2004 ; accessed on February 24, 2011 .

[2] Great Britain: Password or five years in prison, report from October 8, 2007 on heise.de. Retrieved on August 17, 2012 (German).

[3] Licensing. Archived from the original on February 6, 2004 ; accessed on March 1, 2011 (English).

[4] Marcel Rosenbach , Holger Stark : Public enemy WikiLeaks. How a group of net activists challenge the most powerful nations in the world. P. 51f. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04518-8 .

[5] rubberhose.org/ ( Memento from March 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive )