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CAD Stego (fwd)
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> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 19:31:38 -0500
> From: John Young <[email protected]>
> Subject: CAD Stego
> This repeats a suggestion from 1994 about using computer
> assisted design programs to conceal text or other data:
> 3. The scale feature is useful to reduce, say, a text
> of any length, or any digital object, to the size of a pixel.
Assuming your color palate is deep enough to support the compression.
> 4. Or, the text can be distorted by scale and dimension
> to appear to be a line serving another function.
Don't you think they are going to wonder why *that* line is so varied in
color? Or assuming deep color pallettes, why so many colors are selected
when only a few dozen are actualy used in the drawing?
> Then the message could be distorted or hidden as
> described above, for piggy-backing on an innocent-
> looking document issued,
I suspect they'll wonder why that particular file is so much larger than
the other graphics files with the same number of layers.
> 7. Big shortcoming: how to securely transmit the location
> (virtual coordinates) of the hidden message and what
Look for the pixel that has the unique color mapped onto it.
> 8. Medium shortcoming: Full-featured CAD programs are
> expensive, however, the popular lite versions are cheap
> and can usually read the pricier output.
And can't handle more than a few dozen colors and limited layering.
This suggestion is unworkable in application.
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