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ThePowerOfFuetyesterday at 8:36 PM1 replyview on HN

> the difference between truly random noise and an encrypted volume

A LUKS volume with a detached header is indistinguishable from random data.


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monster_trucktoday at 1:44 AM

Have you actually compared the random data that various tools write to a disk to encrypted files? Load up binwalk and give it a rip, you will be surprised by how distinct the entropy graph is between the two