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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!piet
- From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Steganography (Was: A Trial Balloon on Registered Keys)
- Keywords: steganography, cryptography
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.135752.24144@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 13:57:52 GMT
- References: <1992Oct27.143737.1574@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <1992Oct28.134951.29387@nntp.nta.no> <55516@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Nov3.152740.29447@nntp.nta.no>
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- Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Lines: 26
- Supersedes: <1992Nov5.125740.20951@cs.ruu.nl>
- In-Reply-To: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
-
- >>>>> styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri) (HS) writes:
-
- HS> In the light of the Registered Keys thread I believe there is a good reason
- HS> to discuss steganography. How can the govt. tell that there's an encrypted
- HS> message if I hide it? How can I prove there is no such message if the govt.
- HS> says there is?
-
- A very simple way to hide a message is the following:
-
- Suppose your favorate Mafioso wants to send you a secret message. He
- encrypts it with a non-registered key. Now he takes a digital picture of
- his nice family (say with 8 bits per pixel) and replaces each low-order bit
- with one bit of the message. If the color palette is suitably chosen or it
- is a grey-scale picture or a 24 bit true color picture or similar, this
- will not change the picture much, but just add a bit of noise. How is the
- government to prove that the picture contains an encrypted message?
-
- (NOTE: this method is an adaption of something that was published earlier
- in sci.crypt)
-
- Of course this method is difficult to use for encrypted telephone communication.
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