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aid worker stego
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Fairbrother)
Tue Mar 29 08:00:08 2005
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:45:20 +0100
From: Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk>
To: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
I've been asked to advise an aid worker about stego. Potential major
government attacker.
I don't think there is much danger of severe torture, but I don't think
"innocent-until-proven-guilty" applies either, and suspicion should be
minimised or avoided.
I though about recommending Best/Drive -Crypt as they are supposedly
general-purpose encryption programs which can also do encrypted containers
which are undetectable, but I don't know if that's actually so, or which to
choose.
If he's using Windows will they clean up the temp and swap files?
An alternative is a stego program to hide data in eg images. I don't know
which are the better ones now available, can anyone advise?
The other point is that the stego program itself will be visible on disk. Is
there a small stego program that you could eg hide in an image and somehow
bootstrap from something totally innocuous?
Any other ideas?
--
Peter Fairbrother
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