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Program Hides Secret Messages in Executables

Posted by timothy on from the ms-reveals-code-to-piglatinland dept.

DmuZ writes "My friend Rakan has created a new steganographic tool named Hydan which can embed messages into an executable without altering its size. He recently presented this tool to the public for the first time at codecon. This new technique was intriguing enough to get coverage on SecurityFocus.com. The code is available here."

2 of 243 comments (clear)

  1. Use this program... by megazoid81 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ... and the terrorists have won!

    How can one release such software without also releasing an antidote secretly to the Total Information Awareness program?

  2. Been done many years ago.. by zcat_NZ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    About 15 YEARS ago, I was reading the documentation for the A86 assembler. The author warned that any non-trivial amount of code compiled with his assembler could be identified and proven in court from the compiler's unique 'footprint'.

    Same concept as this except that it was added by the assembler itself, hiding a simple pattern to identify the compiler, and I think it was a bit more subtle than this example.

    Just in case anyone thought this was a new idea...

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