The answer to that question depends on some leg work which involves converting the source code to stegetect into hardware and seeing how fast that hardware runs, then multiplying by X where X is how many of the chips you can afford to build.
I'd image that it's a lot faster to have some hw that gives you a yea/nay on each JPG, than to say, attempt to crack DES. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ <--*-->:and our people, and neither do we." -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + : War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: > So here's the 'obvious' question: > > How fast can dedicated hardware run if it were a dedicated Stegedetect > processor? > > In other words, how easy would it be for NSA, et al to scan 'every' photo on > the internet for Stego traces? (And then, every photo being emailed?) > > And then, how fast can someone write a worm that will make every photo > stored on a harddrive look like it's been stegoed?
