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Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data?
gust5av writes "I'm working on a little script to provide very simple and easy to use steganography. I'm using bash together with cryptsetup (without LUKS), and the plausible deniability lies in writing to different parts of a container file. On decryption you specify the offset of the hidden data. Together with a dynamically expanding filesystem, this makes it possible to have an arbitrary number of hidden volumes in a file. It is implausible to reveal the encrypted data without the password, but is it possible to prove there is encrypted data where you claim there's not? If I give someone one file containing random data and another containing data encrypted with AES, will he be able to tell which is which?"
Trick question! It is random text that's been encrypted!
Let me guess... Random!.. No, wait, too obvious. Encrypted!
Nice. "All your base are belong". You purposely left off the last two words to give a smaller sample to review and potentially recognize patterns.
The CB App. What's your 20?
Weird. I guess I there's a bug in my ROT13 implementation. If I run my text through twice, I just get the original message.
The CB App. What's your 20?
From now on, whenever I go on a flight I'm bringing several DVDs of random data.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Weird. I guess I there's a bug in my ROT13 implementation. If I run my text through twice, I just get the original message.
Just do what they did with DES... use 3rot13 and you're much more secure than the original implementation.
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
Math.
Be sure to use some math and it'll all be good
I see a market in in automated phone book whacking gadgets! Look for them soon on ThinkGeek.
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They will need to give it a significant civilian use, so it should come with an attachment that lets you beat the marketing department and PHBs to death with a paper towel roller.
Looks Welsh...
I don't work for any 3-letter agency and even I could easily get the information needed.
With the right tools.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
they aren't going to drug / beat every single person coming onto an airplane
If you fly US Airways, there's a $25 service charge if you want to get beaten and drugged before boarding. I remember when that shit used to be included in the base ticket price.
If your jpgs look like everybody elses jpgs both visually and under close analytical scrutiny they aren't going to bother you.
I've developed a fascinating algorithm for encoding hidden data by slightly modulating breast sizes, but this comment is too small to contain it.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
When they discover you aren't a scientist, live in your mothers basement, and have never held a job, they'll arrest you for obstruction of justice.
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But a good defense attorney would apply the same principle to show that the prosecution's legal submissions were really steganography hiding insults to the judge's mother.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
You tell them you just visited your cousin Jim, who had an old hard drive he didn't want anymore, and you needed a spare so he gave it to you, but not before he ran "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda1" because he didn't want you having his old tax documents. All you've done with it since is install the OS...
...and a copy of Truecrypt into Program Files.
Dammit, I finally get cthulu back to sleep and some jackass wakes him up again.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Better yet: Make it compressed headerless video. Claim you're recording Uranus.
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