---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:37:41 -0700 From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Angelos D. Keromytis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to ban crypto? At 07:21 PM 09/16/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote: >At 06:02 PM 9/16/01 -0400, Angelos D. Keromytis wrote: > >Niels Provos (U. of Michigan) has a very interesting paper on detecting > >steganography on the network (he talked about it during the USENIX Sec. WIP > >session). Basically, he didn't find any steganography in about 2 million >images > >he tested on Ebay. He's working on doing the same for other mediums/sites. > >He did a positive control, right? Obviously this means that the stego-mongers are sufficiently good :-) It's not clear that EBay would be the right place to put stego, though I suppose it's an interesting idea. The popular method people discuss is Usenet porn spam; another obvious approach is webcams, since they're typically going to have pictures that aren't broadcast everywhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]