Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, John Gilmore had to walk into mine and say:
> Niels & Peter, congratulations on finding no secret messages. This is > why computers are getting faster -- so we can spend more and more time > searching out the lack of any information being communicated. Faster computers favour the encoder, not the attacker. In this case, a faster computer means I can spend more time making the steganography match the statistical properties of the original image. > PS: Cypherpunks, where *are* you putting your secret messages? Give > us a hint! Surely *somebody* in this crew must be leaving some > bread-crumbs around for Niels and NSA to find... :-) How many images are posted to usenet every *day*, never mind the sheer number of images stored on webservers everywhere. IANAS, but a mere one million messages is too small a sample set to be statistically significant. A (paraphrased) quote from a recent TV show: "If that doesn't work, I'll hide it in an MPEG and post it on AudioGalaxy". -- Harald Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It takes a child to raze a village." -Michael Fry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]