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- Stealth V1.1 MS-DOS Appnotes
- 17 April 1994 Christopher M. Wiles
-
- These application notes pertain to my port of Henry Hastur's Stealth
- V1.1 to the MS-DOS filesystem.
-
- First and foremost, this PGP filter does _not_ work with an ascii-armored
- text input file. It was designed and coded for use with straight binary
- files. This is fine when your primary purpose is to exchange files via
- the use of steganography, but is rather useless if one wishes to remove
- and replace the PGP headers on an e-mail message.
-
- It wouldn't be that difficult to patch the source to handle both input
- and output of ascii armor. If you want to see this modification, send
- me e-mail at the below address. I'll do it if enough people request it.
-
- Additionally, there may be an error in Henry's README file, as included
- in this package. He states that the following command sequence invokes
- PGP with Stealth as a filter:
-
- "pgp -ef < secrets.dat | stealth > pgp.stl"
-
- This hasn't worked for me. PGP hangs when it requests a recipient name
- (a direct result of redirecting STDIN to SECRETS.DAT). This works for
- me:
- "pgp -ef < secrets.dat NAME | stealth > pgp.stl"
-
- ... where NAME is the recipient's name.
-
- That's about it. Hats off to Henry Hastur for writing the code, and to
- Xenon for making it publicly available.
-
- -- Christopher M. Wiles (wileyc@quark.chs.wa.com)
-