Re: Yet more stego scare in the New York Times

2001-10-31 Thread Marcel de Riedmatten
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:18:37PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: At 04:32 PM 10/30/01 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: identifying the target site. Of course, none of this is shielded from the proxy owner. I tried chaining 3 web proxies once, but it was unusably slow and kept timing out. Any

Yet more stego scare in the New York Times

2001-10-30 Thread Nelson Minar
Another sensationalist article in the NYT about the pervasiveness of steganography, with yet another lack of any evaluatable information. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/physical/30STEG.html?pagewanted=print In summary, evidence for stego in this article is: Some unnamed French

Re: Yet more stego scare in the New York Times

2001-10-30 Thread Bram Cohen
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Nelson Minar wrote: What's so frustrating about this is that it is quite possible that high quality stego is being used out there; how would we know? That's highly doubtful. We cypherpunks are on the forefront of practical crypto applications, and what we've got is still

Re: Yet more stego scare in the New York Times

2001-10-30 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nelson Minar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Crypto List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:36 AM Subject: Re: Yet more stego scare in the New York Times [...] hotmail/yahoo/hushmail/etc. accounts - these are used