RE: Please make stable NON-US homes for strong crypto projects

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 15:32:10 MDT


On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> This is called steganography. It is easy to detect if one looks for
> it. Most people just look at pretty pictures and don't try to run
> cryptographic software on the data bits. If one does look at the
> data, it is easy to detect as an encoded message. This doesn't add

Um, no. Not if properly done. Which reminds me.

> any cryptographic strength to the message, but is a form of "security
> by obscurity".

Here's 20 tons of paper. Find me the 18th century manuscript. You have 30
seconds.



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