[579] in Cypherpunks
Re: Steganography and Steganalysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Tue May 25 18:37:48 1993
From: gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore)
To: kqb@whscad1.att.com, cypherpunks@toad.com, gnu@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9305252149.AA27051@toad.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 93 15:27:27 -0700
My favorite scheme was to encode messages in trailing spaces and/or tabs
in netnews messages. You could also put internal tabs in place of spaces.
In fact, you could do this with news messages that flow "through" your
site, (if the messages aren't protected with a crypto checksum), so that
you would not be the message's sender (and it wouldn't be addressed to anyone
either -- recipients get very good privacy).
This would be one way for a Unix "worm" program to report back to its
master...and/or receive instructions.
John Gilmore
PS: You could put short interesting stuff just in your message-ID's!
Not to mention the low order bits of timestamps (exactly *what* second
did it arrive, now?).
