[kybernetikos]

> So you can get into the situation where you've decrypted every volume that exists, under coercion, but your adversary believes there are more volumes remaining.

This is intentional.

If you could prove that there wasn't more hidden data, then the incentives would be to torture you until you did that.

Since you can't, there is no incentive to reveal a further hidden volume, since the attackers will either keep torturing you or not, and revealing more will most likely not help you.

This exact topic was discussed in the Rubber Hose documentation that I read 20 years ago. I think this is an archive of the document I'm thinking of: https://web.archive.org/web/20100820175505/http://iq.org/~pr...