Comment by api
4 years ago
There’s a canonical term for this: rubber hose cryptography. That’s when you beat someone with a rubber hose until they give you the key. It’s effective against a wide range of algorithms and constructions.
4 years ago
There’s a canonical term for this: rubber hose cryptography. That’s when you beat someone with a rubber hose until they give you the key. It’s effective against a wide range of algorithms and constructions.
The technical solution is having very available, very believable lies. Something where you can "reveal" false secrets that decrypt to believable data by your attacker.
This is generally hard. Because you gotta know, at the time of being tortured, which fake secret will give believable results.
https://xkcd.com/538/