"null" <stay@home.com> wrote in news:CN5Ng.9255$xV.7519
@twister.nyroc.rr.com:

> nemo_outis wrote:
>
>> I say, without fear of contradiction, that there is NO method of
>> unsuspiciously hiding a multi-gigabyte encrypted file from a
>> *thorough* search
>
> A guy I know who is much more hardcore than me sometimes takes his OTFE
> file and writes it to a disk that is offline. The file ends up in
> perfect form on the disk, but the file system (i.e. the MFT, if using
> NTFS) contains absolutely no reference to this file. Since
> crypto-strong pseudorandom algorithms are used on each and every one of
> his disks, that file blends in perfectly with free space. He stores the
> offset and length of the file, and nothing else. Let me know how this
> method would be "suspicious" to you.


I'm eager to learn how one writes to an offline disk.

Regards,