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I know these are Windows apps, but still very useful free apps: Steganos Locknote: http://www.steganos.com/us/products/for-free/locknote/overview/ Steganos Password Manager: http://www.steganos.com/us/products/for-free/password-manager-free/overview/

I know these are Windows apps, but still very useful free apps: Steganos Locknote: http://www.steganos.com/us/products/for-free/locknote/overview/ Steganos Password Manager: http://www.steganos.com/us/products/for-free/password-manager-free/overview/

I use Steganos LockNote (GPL, http://www.steganos.com/us/products/for-free/locknote/overview/), it's essentially a self-contained AES encrypting Notepad.
And it's extremely stand-alone/portable, so you can just stick it on a USB stick.

There are plenty of highly anonymous VPN/SSL tunneling services available for 10 or 15 bucks a month. No need to take a speed hit or trust an unknown foreign proxy server. -Steganos https://www.steganos.com/us/products/home-office/internet-anonym-vpn/overview/ -VPNGates http://www.vpngates.com/ -SecureIX http://www.secureix.com/ -Relakks https://www.relakks.com/?cid=gb -Anonymizer http://www.anonymizer.com/

I have had real good luck with Steganos Locknote http://locknote.steganos.com/ Just one password to remember.

I would expect that if passwords are required to be changed on a regular basis, then that would be more reason to write them down (if they're secure they're probably harder to remember)

free
http://www.7-zip.org/
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
http://djlizard.net/software/dial-a-fix
http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

shareware
http://www.steganos.com/?product=safe8&language=en
http://www.agnitum.com/products/tauscan/index.php
http://www.kaspersky.com/antihacker

Yeah, this is *exactly* what I was talking about. If you have several open proxies available to you, it would be hard for anyone to block *all* of them. I saw the program you're referring to demonstrated on TechTV about a year ago or so. It was called Internet Anonym Pro.

I always route my HTTP connection through an anonymous proxy. And the more I hear about BS like this, the gladder I am that I use proxies. You can get a big list of them from stayinvisible.com . If you're on OS X, there's a shareware called NetShade that puts your connection through a proxy, and has an option to cycle between different proxy servers every 5 seconds. There's another program for Windows by Steganos which I haven't tried, but it looks like it does the same thing.

Alternatively you could encrypt secret messages in SPAM.

Then there's peek-a-booty which was demoed with much fanfare at Codecon but where is it!!!! That was months ago and there is no product we can play with and no source to be seen.

I'm on side with these guys stated intentions ... I just wish I had there publicity touch.

Hey!

Obviously the idea is to communicate without anyone knowing.

My reccommendation would depend on the time you want the data delivered in. If you have a long time for each communication, I would advise you set up a dialogue over the post. You send regular letters to your cousin in China, writing about all sorts of family subjects. You don't conceal and hidden information in these messages. Every time you have some secret information, you send your friend a big American movie that would be hard to get in China. I can't comment on video availiability in China, but I don't expect it's that great. Anyway, you send off your video of, say, 'The Matrix'. Both you and your friend have some sort of video editing system. You could use pretty much anything, but I like the Danmere Backer range. You go to the very end of the video, after the film, stick some tape over the snapped-off tag, then record your message, in whatever format you want. Rewind the video, remove the tape to write-protect the tape, if possible, get somebody who works at a shop to shrink-wrap it for you, then post it off. A few weeks later, he posts back your video with a letter of thanks, and his reply recorded over your old message.

Whilst the time requirements are quite strict, and there may be difficulties posting videos from abroad, I doubt government searchers are going to open your shrink-wrapped video and watch the entire thing, end to end, in case you have a secret message encoded in it. You could camoflage your message with a regular exchange of non-messaged tapes if you want.

If you want to communicate more quickly, I'd go for steganography. I personally use steganos which is windows-only (gasp!) but uses something they call Dynamic Cell Spreading (DyCeS). If it was me programming it, I'd ask for a password, then I'd hash the password, and number all the pixels. If the hash started with hex 7C1..., I'd encrypt the message with the password provided, then put the first bit in cell 7C1, and repeat this several times. That way, people looking at your message wouldn't be able to tell which cells to check for hidden messages. This could be done against a background of normal photographs, as camoflage.

Then again, I didn't write the program, and don't have any information on how the DyCeS algorithm works, and havn't a clue how to write a steganography program.

Maybe some peer review could be in order?

Michael Tandy


...another insightless comment from Michael Tandy.