So, here's the problem: it HAS to appear like a normal, unencrypted drive to the operating system or the computer won't work. If you don't have hardware doing that translation, you need software doing it.Once the thing is mounted and unencrypted, it's not random junk in the file anymore. It's obviously a hidden partition sitting in the middle of the file system. There's always the possibility that I'm mistaken, but I just don't see how it's possible to mount the thing and not see a gigantic multi-gigabyte file sitting there. Note that I'm talking about AFTER they mount the outer partition, not before.