You could also just publish the cipher-text in a newspaper and only people who know the key could read the plaintext. That fails for the goals of stego; by using stego, people don't want it known that they have a secret that they are passing/storing.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Michael Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > So after reading all of these posts after sending my own question. Due > to google mail not correctly threading this topic. I had an epiphany. > This kind of goes along the mantra if you want to hide something hide > it in plain sight. Why not use a QR code image (2d bar code > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code ) to publish your encrypted > payload. You have 4,296 alphanumeric characters you can encode into > the bar code. So if you encrypt your message and you are under > character limit. People use twitter to send out 140 character > messages. Why not use a QR code with a encrypted payload. You could > even use twitpic.com. You could even publish a QR code in a news > paper and only the person you want to read the message will be able to > decode it. > > -mmiller > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Ali Emirlioglu<[email protected]> > wrote: > > While were on the subject of usable stego for legit purposes, does anyone > > know of any free software that does PDF stego? I've been asked to find > ways > > to forensically watermarking a PDF ebook. > > > > Cheers, > > Ali > > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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