How does double-wrapping work

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In connection with suicide-ganking and contracts I often hear the term double-wrapping to make it impossible to see the cargo inside the ship. While I have some vague idea on how this is supposed to work, I'm unsure about the details.

What is double-wrapping, how exactly can I do that and when should I use double-wrapping?

Best Answer

EVE University has a tutorial here see the 'Advanced Hauling' section and this item specifically:

If you put your goods in a secure container, and then make a courier contract with that container, then the items in the container will be "double wrapped", and protected from cargo scans

Unless they've changed something recently you specifically can't put a container inside another container, if you try you'll get a message about Planck something or other.

You use double wrapping when you want your cargo to be unviewable from gankers cargo scanning the hauler ship.