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
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