[24771] in Cypherpunks
Art and Crypto - Re: I'm back. :)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com )
Wed Jan 4 02:05:41 1995
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 95 01:52:22 EST
From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Lile Elam writes
> I finally got back on cypherpunks. Have been incredibly busy
> but wanted to keep intouch as several artist friends of mine
> want to start using art as a encryption vehicle... Should be fun...
It works on so many levels, as well
- hiding encrypted bits in the low-order bits of pixel color values
- representing data in the colored spots on a Seurat impressionist work
or the lines and splotches on a Jackson Pollack imitation
- wondering what the artist _really meant_ by a given figure :-)
It also may be a good way to nag us into doing stealthy versions
of PGP and other cryptosystem headers - steganography is less useful
when the encrypted message always starts off with
- ----- BEGIN PGP ENCRYPTED FILE
and has the recipient's keyid readily findable as well.
Bill
