[51503] in Cypherpunks
Re: Steganography idea: CU-SeeMe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Wed Mar 6 06:41:37 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:34:16 +0100
In-Reply-To: <199603060734.AAA00178@nelson.santafe.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous)
On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Nelson Minar wrote:
[Re: data steams to put steno in]
> So here's one idea I've had as a place to hide a channel: network
> video, in particular CU-SeeMe video streams. CU-SeeMe is a lowtech
That's an excellent idea.
The only problem with using CU-SeeMe is that, due to the nature of the
data being transferred, it is more important to keep up to date than to
not lose data. I believe it uses UDP to do this. There would have to be
some protection mechanism in the stego patches to tolerate high amounts
of data loss - the obvious solution would be to loop the data, but that
is easily detectable, and is not a guarantee that the data arrived
safely. Setting up a connection outside of Cu-SeeMe attracts attention,
especially if there was a correlation between what occurred on that
connection and what occurred in the LOBs of the Cu-SeeMe connection.
-- Abraham d'Anonymous
(No relation to Alice)
