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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:51:59 -0400
Please don't send messages like this to CodherPlunks. They are
appropriate for Cryptography, however.
David Honig writes:
> At 01:32 PM 8/21/98 -0400, John R Levine wrote:
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> >I suppose this is the digital equivalent of wrapping your Cuban cigars in th
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> >poopy diapers.
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> Which ruins the cigars. The proper way to launder cigars is to exchange the
> Havana ring for some legit variety. However, customs reportedly (this is fro
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> soc.cigar or whatever people from years ago) can detect Cubans by smell.
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> Encrypted data is more obvious ---every *other* kind of data has structure.
> Just histogramming it will give 'signatures'.
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> You don't have to be a chemist to detect explosives, you just need a dolt
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> right machine. You don't have to understand entropy to measure it.
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> Stego distributes suspicion over *all* of *everyone*'s multimedia data.
> (Analogous to: When you do anonymous IP tunneling, you should pick random
> source-addresses so as to distribute blame over the whole IP range.)
> This is much better than concentrating your precious bits in an obvious
> high-entropy file.
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