At 11:04 AM 5/7/00 -0400, David Honig wrote:
>An issue in Eternity systems is how to motivate participants.
You can pay storers or retrievers, but this introduces biasses
that have been discussed here. Other motivational structures
have been proposed [1] too. But why is Joe Sixpack going to install
some program that he'll rarely use?
>Instead, Stego your Eternal data into MP3s
and propogate. The MP3 propogation structure is there, in
Napster, and more robust distributed-index versions that will follow.
>After some percolation [2] time, the info will
be pretty hard to remove. You can reveal the key then.
>You could search for the data by MP3 name and/or size and/or other
parameters, like Wrapster does. Or the Stego's MP3 could be
identical in size to other MP3s of the same name, for stealth, and
you'd have to download several and try to decrypt them.
>The beauty is that the carrier data, being aesthetically pleasing, has
created an infrastructure for us. The charm is that a million tuneswapping
Americans will just laugh when they get requests from Her Inbred Majesty.
>Maybe Shayler's next installment will be in the form of a Carl Johnson
tune...
=========================================================
You still must delineate the stego'd version from the others without arousing
suspicion. Insert any unusual stuff in the name and Joe Sixpack may stay
clear. One should make the stego'd versions more attractive in some way
to Joe Sixpack. One of the shortcomings of Napster is its dependance on
MP3 files of which can become truncated without detection until it is downloaded
and played. A real disappointment to downloaders, especially those with
slow links.
Since the advent of Wrapster (a WinZIP-like tool for converting any group
of files to a MP3-like appearance) some cleaver users have included the
original (and hopefully correct) file length as part of the name. This
is especially handy for the longer warez files, but could be used for Eternity
purposes. I have yet to see a single music MP3 on Napster including the
file length. Those with this addition are likely to be favored over the
common variety, displacing them and encouraging the retention of Eternity
MP3s.
So has anyone developed an MP3 stego program?
IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are not using HushMail, this message could have been read
easily by the many people who have access to your open personal email messages.
Get your FREE, totally secure email address at http://www.hushmail.com.
