Re: steganography (and bin Laden)

From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 18:05:56 MDT


J. R. Molloy <jr@shasta.com> quoted:

> Evidence is mounting that the terrorists responsible for last month's attacks
> on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were technically sophisticated -
> communicating with each other via encrypted messages hidden within digital
> images sent via the Internet.

While you are still shivering from journalistic scaremonging
fabricated right out of thin air, you might want to check the work
of some knowledgeable people:

Detecting Steganographic Content on the Internet
Niels Provos and Peter Honeyman, CITI Technical Report 01-11,
August 2001. Submitted for publication.
http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-11.pdf

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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