Might want to try and find xsteg. It's just a frontend but still, it's a little easier to use if you're teaching. Stego can be used for a parlor trick of course, but you can hide something fairly easy in a file if nobody's looking. The key is making the file not seem too bloated.
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Joel Folkerts <[email protected]>wrote: > Adrian, > > While I certainly cannot speak as an authority on the subject, it's been > my experience that stego is an over-hyped technology that just isn't being > incorporated as widely as we may believe. I believe the primary reason for > this may be the lack of an agreed industry standard, protocol, or > application that implements steg. Contrarily, steg detection tools are still > very premature and relatively expensive so it may be a case that we just > can't find it. When I was a little more active in the forensic industry, > WetStone Technologies created a Stego Suite that was about the only > compelling product in the market. > > The best stego implementation that I have seen was hiding data in JPEG > quantization tables, which made detection very difficult. The most basic was > hiding the data in the least significant bit (LSB) - impossible to detect > with the naked eye but may be easily detected by recognizing the pattern. > > -Joel > > > "The path to hell is paved with good intentions." > > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ok, I'm prepping up for my Anti-Forensics class, and I'm looking into >> steganography. All the tools I've looked at seem to be too much of a pain in >> the butt for me to see folks using them to hide their pr0n stash or illicit >> business practices. Passing messages, maybe. Anything out there that you >> would see as useful? Maybe something that lets you mound a large AVI or >> something as a drive and lets you randomly add and remove files? >> >> On a side note, can you think of a time when stego is used as something >> more than a parlor trick? >> >> Adrian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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