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- From: alain@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca (W.A.Simon)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: A new encryption problem?
- Message-ID: <14089@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 21:46:23 GMT
- References: <14088@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca> <199211101157.AA24155@alchemy.cs.ruu.nl>
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- In <199211101157.AA24155@alchemy.cs.ruu.nl>
- Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
- wonders about my hints:
-
- > > If you are interested, I suggest you consider [trumpet triumphal]
- > > The Braid [drum roll] yes, my own baby! Look it up for details on
- > > how it is done (just add low bias).
- > Can you give some info on this?
-
- Given:
- a random bit stream,
- a bit stream of data to be hidden,
- a bit stream of digitized material.
-
- Recipe:
-
- Say we have a digitized sound with a 16 bit sampling range.
- We read the digitized material one word at a time (16 bit chunks).
-
- We read the random bit stream 4 bits at a time, in order to generate
- decimal values between 0 and 15. This number is the order of the bit
- we will borrow within the digitizing word. Had we had 32 bit sampling
- we would have picked our random bits 5 at a time... etc...
-
- As we output the bits of the digitizing word to destination, we ignore
- the true value of the selected bit and replace it with the actual value
- of our next bit of sensitive data.
-
- If we have a lot of digitized material and relatively little sensitive
- data, we could pull an extra number from the random bit stream such
- as 0 (we don't substitute any bit in this word) or 1 (we do). The
- variations and the gradations are infinite.
-
- If we want to change the obvious white noise into a less obtrusive
- tape hiss, we generate the decimal number two or more times and pick
- the lowest value of the two or three as the borrowed bit pointer.
- The least significant bits will be diddled more often than others.
-
- Et voila... a hissy sound track wich contains seditious material,
- which is best kept secret, like the Constitution maybe...
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-
- --
- Alain
- [ ... usual disclaimer... ]
-