[51508] in Cypherpunks
Re: Steganography idea: CU-SeeMe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp)
Wed Mar 6 09:47:44 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:28:11 +0000
From: Ed Carp <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: Nelson Minar <nelson@santafe.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199603060734.AAA00178@nelson.santafe.edu>
On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Nelson Minar wrote:
> The thing that bothers me about existing steganography code I've seen
> is that it all uses uncommon communication channels to hide data. For
> instance, the "hide data in a picture" programs: useful, up to a
> point, but how often do I send pictures to other people? I think to be
> effective, methods need to be employed that exploit existing, well
> used communication channels.
Then he sez:
> 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
I think it likely that people will be sending GIFs and JPEGs to each
other far more often than video. Video is far more an "uncommon
communications channel" than is a uuencoded picture.
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