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Re: Eason/Kawaguchi stego
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Holovacs)
Tue Jun 29 17:53:49 1999
From: "Jay Holovacs" <holovacs@idt.net>
To: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>, <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:20:58 -0400
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> From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
> To: cryptography@c2.net
> Subject: Eason/Kawaguchi stego
> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 9:27 AM
>
> . Also, only a
> few parameters are needed to retrieve the information, so anybody with
> the appropriate detector and a few guesses can find the information.
> Yes, that's right, it's only hidden from view, not from even the least
> determined observer.
But if data is properly encrypted first, noise extracted from any picture
should be virtually indistinguishable from encrypted data. Stego is really
just obscurity with plausible deniability, it should never be used without
encryption.
jay
