RE: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-12 Thread Trei, Peter
I'm trying to think of a reason why a recipient of a image containing stego'd information would want to keep it around after reading the contained info, with the stego bits overwritten. Why not just (securely) get rid of it? There are tons of sources of unique ephemeral images, such as webcams.

RE: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-12 Thread Trei, Peter
I'm trying to think of a reason why a recipient of a image containing stego'd information would want to keep it around after reading the contained info, with the stego bits overwritten. Why not just (securely) get rid of it? There are tons of sources of unique ephemeral images, such as webcams.

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Clouds)

2003-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
recently -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Anonymity) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:26:16 -0800 At 06:22 PM 12/10/03 +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Anonymity)

2003-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:22 PM 12/10/03 +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600, Declan McCullagh wrote: We have anonymity in Web browsing (more or less, thanks to Lance co). It's not NSA-proof, but it's probably subpoena-proof. We have anonymity in email thanks to remailers (to

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Clouds)

2003-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:35 PM 12/11/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Variola wrote... How do you know the signature of the unaltered carrier-medium? E.g., have you measured the LSBit noise from my camera recently? Under which lighting conditions? Well, having done some optical signal processing (and getting a patent

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-11 Thread Morlock Elloi
If you spatially fft a random photo, you'll find that the image detail energy largely occupies certain bands. These are not the bands that stego uses (or so I assume...it really can't be otherwise). The stego-able spectrum will indeed be noise, but this noise will have a certain spectrum.

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:12 PM 12/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: If you spatially fft a random photo, you'll find that the image detail energy largely occupies certain bands. These are not the bands that stego uses (or so I assume...it really can't be otherwise). The stego-able spectrum will indeed be noise,

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
not be able to tell. Any of you TLA lurkers wanna come in on a remailer and set me straight? -TD From: A.Melon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:28:31 -0800 (PST) Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-12-08

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Anonymity)

2003-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:22 PM 12/10/03 +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600, Declan McCullagh wrote: We have anonymity in Web browsing (more or less, thanks to Lance co). It's not NSA-proof, but it's probably subpoena-proof. We have anonymity in email thanks to remailers (to

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Clouds)

2003-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
recently -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Anonymity) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:26:16 -0800 At 06:22 PM 12/10/03 +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Clouds)

2003-12-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:35 PM 12/11/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Variola wrote... How do you know the signature of the unaltered carrier-medium? E.g., have you measured the LSBit noise from my camera recently? Under which lighting conditions? Well, having done some optical signal processing (and getting a patent

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-10 Thread A.Melon
Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-12-08: Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when it was sent to me) contained stegoed information, but that it was intercepted in transit and the real message overwritten with noise or whatever? Hardly, given the simple

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
not be able to tell. Any of you TLA lurkers wanna come in on a remailer and set me straight? -TD From: A.Melon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:28:31 -0800 (PST) Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-12-08

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-10 Thread Morlock Elloi
If you spatially fft a random photo, you'll find that the image detail energy largely occupies certain bands. These are not the bands that stego uses (or so I assume...it really can't be otherwise). The stego-able spectrum will indeed be noise, but this noise will have a certain spectrum.

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-10 Thread A.Melon
Tyler Durden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 2003-12-08: Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when it was sent to me) contained stegoed information, but that it was intercepted in transit and the real message overwritten with noise or whatever? Hardly, given the simple