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Hydan: Steganography in Executables

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-hack-on dept.

An anonymous reader says "Ever wanted to hide a message into an executable? Now you can with Hydan. Presented recently by Rakan El-Khalil at Defcon and Blackhat, this tool lets you embed data into an application without changing its functionality or filesize! Check it out. Use includes steganography as well as embedding a program's signature into itself to verify it's not been tampered with."

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  1. What ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What are you doing?"

    "Oh, hydan out."

  2. Right now by Tsiangkun · · Score: 4, Funny

    it looks like the information is being hidden by a slashdotted executable.

  3. The question, answered. by caluml · · Score: 4, Funny
    Ever wanted to hide a message into an executable?

    Not really :)
    But I'd like to make that dog downstairs stop barking.

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  4. A new low... by ivan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not only a dupe, but a link to the original story is listed on the referenced page.

    Wow.

    1. Re:A new low... by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 4, Funny
      You're just not playing the game! I'll let you in on it:

      A bunch of folks who got pissed off that their stories never got approved on /. got together on alt.syntax.tactical and devised a plan. What they're doing is finding OLD slashdot stories and resubmitting them.

      So far, it's been moderatly successful with 4-5 dupes getting through each week. This story was particularly amusing because the article has a link to their /. mention! Good work to the folks at a.s.t!

      I suggest you start playing along too! It's fun to show how worthless the /. editors are.

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  5. Hydan... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The message retrieval method should be called "Hydan Seek"

  6. Re: For the slightly less knowledgable by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > steganography: the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination.

    I thought steganography meant pictures of stegasaurs making little stegasarus.

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