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Re: [LUG] OT: Steganography - hiding data in plain sight; An alternative to encryption?

 

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Roland Tarver wrote:
> Sorry about the long URL.

No problem, though http://www.unixmen.com/news-today/1683 would have
worked as well. :)

> Some years ago I was partially involved with a project that used the
> least significant bit of the bytes used to define a bitmap image. The
> project would have used this least significant bit to "hide" data in
> plain sight.

Heh, I remember hearing a bit about this kind of stuff a decade or so
ago, when I was doing maths. The idea is quite cool and has lots of
applications. Never worked with it though.

Martijn.

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