HiddenCrypt
Deniable Encryption to stop UK police
The 'war on terror' has been a great excuse for statist micro-authoritarian forces in society. The UK, in particular has led this charge towards tyranny.
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) is an increasingly used set of regulations used to intimidate activists into handing over information that can be used by state authorities to blackmail people using the wide dragnet that is state law, such as the Terrorism Acts 2000 and 2003.
These are not theoretical attacks that could be used at some future date. They are being used often to intimidate environmental activists, hackers and Kurdish anarchists. There is no presumption of innocence- you are guilty. Not possessing access to encryption keys is not a defence.
HiddenCrypt allows you to bypass RIPA. It creates hidden volumes that forensic analysis cannot see. You only need a passphrase, and the software will find the volume and decrypt it. Forensics cannot see the number of hidden volumes that you have.
Enough is enough. No pasaran! No to destruction of liberty.
Requirements:
$ sudo apt install cryptsetup python3Create a new hidden volume:
$ sudo ./hc.py newOpen a new hidden volume:
$ sudo ./hc.py open
$ ls /mnt/Close an opened volume:
$ sudo ./hc.py closeTechnical shit:
Volumes are stored in a single contiguous file (slab) at various offsets. The offsets are password encrypted and stored in a hashmap array. When you want to decrypt a store, the password is scrypt hashed, indexed inside the hashmap, and then the row is decrypted to give the offset of the volume. Then using the password, the software decrypts the volume.
Currently the software uses LUKS containers but a better system would leave no container headers so the slab just looks like continuous random data making forensics harder.