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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:00
David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:06:42 -0700
At 09:07 AM 8/21/98 -0700, Dan Todd wrote:
>Who needs stego.
People do.
>If you don't like that approach just label your cyphertext files as
>executables. What customs official will ask you to run al the executables
>on your laptop? If that's a problem just drop them into a development
>environment and tell them it is code in progress and doesn't work right now.
>
>Remember, social engineering works both ways. :-)
While renaming .pgp files to .exe or whatever is going to be sufficient
for a little while, consider the next level of the game.
"Do you mind if we install and run our Customs2000 program on your machine?"
"Yes, I do"
"Do you want to enter our country?"
"Uh, sir, your foobar.dll shows up as suspicious. It is not a
properly executable. Maybe you should make it easier on yourself
and give us the key now."
There is some neat work on deniable, steganographic file systems, but
I haven't got the ref handy.
There is a secret message embedded in the phosphor of this period.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:00