[107746] in Cypherpunks
Re: Idea: steganographic spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vogt)
Fri Jan 22 05:18:40 1999
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:00:22 +0100
From: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
Jukka E Isosaari wrote:
> Instead of disguising messages in text (assuming that's the only
> available format) as errors, would it not be neat if you could send
> steganographic messages disguised as spam to your friends? That would
> give a much better information density, better cover and plausible
> denial. They would most likely be totally ignored by anyone looking
> for signs of use of cryptograpy. And most spam is already
> unintelligible to begin with. :-)
except that it would most likely run into a couple of spam-filters along
the road, this is a nice idea. :)
