Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-09 Thread Tom Vogt
Tim May wrote: > Needless to say, but I will say it anyway, no game company or > software company or music provider or anyone else will ever put in > something so arcane as a "stego channel." We have to "get real" on > these issues. > not a "big" company, but maybe a small one. there are these e

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-07 Thread Ray Dillinger
>>On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: >> >> >>>I'm currently thinking of whether or not it is feasable to put stego >>>data into EVERY .mp3 downloaded. just put random data into those not >>>intended to carry a message. > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote: >>You're talking >>about makin

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-07 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: >> Lossy compression. >> >> balance snipped, we need lossless compression, eh? > >nope we don't. remember that everyone said that .jpeg couldn't be used >for stego for that same reason? then the first .jpeg-stego tools >arrived. The only problem with lossy co

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-07 Thread petro
>At 10:52 AM 10/6/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote: >>For the sake of us audiophiles, please don't. MP3 is tinny and flat >>at best; > >Then why are you 'audiophiles' traumatizing yourselves by listening >to it? > > it ticks me off that most folks seem to hear it as "good >>enough", because if most

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-07 Thread petro
>On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > > >>I'm currently thinking of whether or not it is feasable to put stego >>data into EVERY .mp3 downloaded. just put random data into those not >>intended to carry a message. > >For the sake of us audiophiles, please don't. MP3 is tinny and flat >at best; it

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-06 Thread David Honig
At 10:52 AM 10/6/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote: >For the sake of us audiophiles, please don't. MP3 is tinny and flat >at best; Then why are you 'audiophiles' traumatizing yourselves by listening to it? it ticks me off that most folks seem to hear it as "good >enough", because if most folks h

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-06 Thread David Honig
At 07:05 AM 10/6/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >I'm currently thinking of whether or not it is feasable to put stego >data into EVERY .mp3 downloaded. just put random data into those not >intended to carry a message. Problem is that repeatedly decoding an .mp3 into a .wav, then feeding the .wav and t

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-06 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: >I'm currently thinking of whether or not it is feasable to put stego >data into EVERY .mp3 downloaded. just put random data into those not >intended to carry a message. For the sake of us audiophiles, please don't. MP3 is tinny and flat at best; it ticks

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-06 Thread Tom Vogt
jim bell wrote: > I can see an excellent application for all of our old long-out-of-print > LP's: Digitize them (assuming we still have an operational turntable!) and > the noise level will be comfortably high. And, there is no digital > "reference" for this audio anywhere, so comparisons will b

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-06 Thread Tom Vogt
Reese wrote: > >MP3 ? > > Lossy compression. > > balance snipped, we need lossless compression, eh? nope we don't. remember that everyone said that .jpeg couldn't be used for stego for that same reason? then the first .jpeg-stego tools arrived.

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-06 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:31 PM 10/5/00 +0200, Tom Vogt wrote: > >I'm currently looking for a way to get encrypted data via stego to >people who live in countries where crypto is illegal, and who may be >watched. so just sending them a large graphic would likely arouse >suspicion. > >the 2 best solutions I've come up

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-05 Thread David Honig
At 08:36 AM 10/5/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >the problem with porn is that it may be illegal in itself in the same >countries. Baby pictures, if there's a plausible interest on the receiving side. MP3s of apolitical songs.

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-05 Thread Tom Vogt
Tim May wrote: > Music. CDs are rarely restricted...DATs are probably uncommon, though. MP3 ? let's mix that with an idea I've been discussing in private mail. here's a proposal: set up a service that you can subscribe to. say: www.dailymusic.com - fill out a profile and we select a random nu

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-05 Thread Tim May
At 2:31 PM +0200 10/5/00, Tom Vogt wrote: >I'm currently looking for a way to get encrypted data via stego to >people who live in countries where crypto is illegal, and who may be >watched. so just sending them a large graphic would likely arouse >suspicion. > >the 2 best solutions I've come up wi

Re: stego for the censored

2000-10-05 Thread Steve Furlong
Tom Vogt wrote: > > I'm currently looking for a way to get encrypted data via stego to > people who live in countries where crypto is illegal, and who may be > watched. so just sending them a large graphic would likely arouse > suspicion. > > the 2 best solutions I've come up with so far are por