[9525] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: bin Laden's alleged stego & provos/honey paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Provos)
Thu Sep 27 11:25:03 2001
To: Lyle Seaman <lws@spinnakernet.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, honey@citi.umich.edu
From: Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: Lyle Seaman, Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:32:43 EDT
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:10:07 -0400
Message-Id: <20010927151008.D6859207C1@citi.umich.edu>
In message <3BB0958B.C655F209@spinnakernet.com>, Lyle Seaman writes:
>The paper concludes that either "there is not much stego on the net,"
>or "it's a different kind of stego", or "stego users choose good
>passwords." A fourth possibility is that "we used the wrong
>dictionary." But I suspect that "love", "hockey", and "jesus" probably
>aren't the top choices for passwords among Islamist terrorist cells.
The study was motiviated by the article in the usa today. We
assembled a fairly large dicitionary, almost a million words. In the
discussion, our argument is one of numbers. If there had been a
significant use of steganography, I should have found it. That does
not mean that particular hidden messages can not slip past our net.
Niels.
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