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Re: really undetectable crypto
On Thu, 12 Sep 96 19:26:56 -0700, Jim Miller wrote:
>Most everybody on the list is familiar with the technique of hiding
>encrypted messages in the LSBs of image files. Personally, I would not
>use such a technique because don't I believe it's really undetectable. I
>assume, without proof, that the LSBs of images files have statistical
>properties that are sufficiently different from encrypted data that a
>clever person could determine whether or not an image file contained an
>imbedded encrypted message.
Actually, if you use only a few bits - and not, say, bit 15 of *every* pixel -
you can feel secure *IF* you are writing truly encrypted data. A regular PGP
message has a bunch of header material that most certainly is not
random-looking. OTOH, if you only write the raw data, then there is no way to
differentiate from the random noise added by any scanner - in most cases, the
last couple bits in each RGB triplet of a truecolor image are random.
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