Usable Stego

[chris.biettchert at gmail.com (Chris Biettchert)]

You could also just publish the cipher-text in a newspaper and only people
who know the key could read the plaintext. That fails for the goals of
stego; by using stego, people don't want it known that they have a secret
that they are passing/storing.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Michael Miller
<mike.mikemiller at gmail.com>wrote:

> So after reading all of these posts after sending my own question. Due
> to google mail not correctly threading this topic. I had an epiphany.
>  This kind of goes along the mantra if you want to hide something hide
> it in plain sight.  Why not use a QR code image (2d bar code
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code ) to publish your encrypted
> payload.  You have 4,296 alphanumeric characters you can encode into
> the bar code.  So if you encrypt your message and you are under
> character limit.  People use twitter to send out 140 character
> messages.  Why not use a QR code with a encrypted payload. You could
> even use twitpic.com.   You could even publish a QR code in a news
> paper and only the person you want to read the message will be able to
> decode it.
>
> -mmiller
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Ali Emirlioglu<ali.emirlioglu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > While were on the subject of usable stego for legit purposes, does anyone
> > know of any free software that does PDF stego? I've been asked to find
> ways
> > to forensically watermarking a PDF ebook.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ali
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Ok, I'm prepping up for my Anti-Forensics class, and I'm looking into
> > > steganography. All the tools I've looked at seem to be too much of a
> pain in
> > > the butt for me to see folks using them to hide their pr0n stash or
> illicit
> > > business practices. Passing messages, maybe. Anything out there that you
> > > would see as useful? Maybe something that lets you mound a large AVI or
> > > something as a drive and lets you randomly add and remove files?
> > >
> > > On a side note, can you think of a time when stego is used as something
> > > more than a parlor trick?
> > >
> > > Adrian
> > >
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