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Re: xor data hiding?
According to Perry E. Metzger:
> J. Michael Diehl <[email protected]> says:
> > According to Douglas Sinclair:
> > The point wasn't to be unbreakably secure; it was to be UNFINDABLY
> > secure. We convolute an allready encrypted message to the point of
> > not being recognizable as cyphertext, then we hide it on the end of
> > a file. We want it to look like garbage.
>
> Cyphertext from any decent system ALREADY looks random. Whats the
> point of doing more to it?
Many encryption tools such as ripem, pgp, and dolphin can recognize their own
output...which indicates that there is a footprint to that particular
implimentation.
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