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    Rubberhose (file system) Deniable encryption
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
    The notion of “deniable encryption” was used by Julian Assange and Ralf Weinmann in the Rubberhose filesystem (…) In cryptography, rubber-hose cryptanalysis is a euphemism for the extraction of cryptographic secrets (e.g. the password to an encrypted file) from a person by coercion or torture—such as beating that person with a rubber hose, hence the name—in contrast to a mathematical or technical cryptanalytic attack. (…)