September 2004 - cypherpunks-legacy

Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet
by R. A. Hettinga 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5009766-103690,00.html> The Guardian Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet Two of the seven million dollar challenges that have baffled for more than a century may be close to being solved Tim Radford, science editor Tuesday September 7, 2004 The Guardian Mathematicians could be on the verge of solving two separate million dollar problems. If they are right - still a big if - and somebody really has cracked the so-called Riemann hypothesis, financial disaster might follow. Suddenly all cryptic codes could be breakable. No internet transaction would be safe. On the other hand, if somebody has already sorted out the so-called Poincari conjecture, then scientists will understand something profound about the nature of spacetime, experts told the British Association science festival in Exeter yesterday. Both problems have stood for a century or more. Each is almost dizzyingly arcane: the problems themselves are beyond simple explanation, and the candidate answers published on the internet are so intractable that they could baffle the biggest brains in the business for many months. They are two of the seven "millennium problems" and four years ago the Clay Mathematics Institute in the US offered $1m (#563,000) to anyone who could solve even one of these seven. The hypothesis formulated by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann in 1859, according to Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford University, is the holy grail of mathematics. "Most mathematicians would trade their soul with Mephistopheles for a proof," he said. The Riemann hypothesis would explain the apparently random pattern of prime numbers - numbers such as 3, 17 and 31, for instance, are all prime numbers: they are divisible only by themselves and one. Prime numbers are the atoms of arithmetic. They are also the key to internet cryptography: in effect they keep banks safe and credit cards secure. This year Louis de Branges, a French-born mathematician now at Purdue University in the US, claimed a proof of the Riemann hypothesis. So far, his colleagues are not convinced. They were not convinced, years ago, when de Branges produced an answer to another famous mathematical challenge, but in time they accepted his reasoning. This time, the mathematical community remains even more sceptical. "The proof he has announced is rather incomprehensible. Now mathematicians are less sure that the million has been won," Prof du Sautoy said. "The whole of e-commerce depends on prime numbers. I have described the primes as atoms: what mathematicians are missing is a kind of mathematical prime spectrometer. Chemists have a machine that, if you give it a molecule, will tell you the atoms that it is built from. Mathematicians haven't invented a mathematical version of this. That is what we are after. If the Riemann hypothesis is true, it won't produce a prime number spectrometer. But the proof should give us more understanding of how the primes work, and therefore the proof might be translated into something that might produce this prime spectrometer. If it does, it will bring the whole of e-commerce to its knees, overnight. So there are very big implications." The Poincari conjecture depends on the almost mind-numbing problem of understanding the shapes of spaces: mathematicians call it topology. Bernhard Riemann and other 19th century scholars wrapped up the mathematical problems of two-dimensional surfaces of three dimensional objects - the leather around a football, for instance, or the distortions of a rubber sheet. But Henri Poincari raised the awkward question of objects with three dimensions, existing in the fourth dimension of time. He had already done groundbreaking work in optics, thermodynamics, celestial mechanics, quantum theory and even special relativity and he almost anticipated Einstein. And then in 1904 he asked the most fundamental question of all: what is the shape of the space in which we live? It turned out to be possible to prove the Poincari conjecture in unimaginable worlds, where objects have four or five or more dimensions, but not with three. "The one case that is really of interest because it connects with physics, is the one case where the Poincari conjecture hasn't been solved," said Keith Devlin, of Stanford University in California. In 2002 a Russian mathematician called Grigori Perelman posted the first of a series of internet papers. He had worked in the US, and was known to American mathematicians before he returned to St Petersburg. His proof - he called it only a sketch of a proof - was very similar in some ways to that of Fermat's last theorem, cracked by the Briton Andrew Wiles in the last decade. Like Wiles, Perelman is claiming to have proved a much more complicated general problem and in the course of it may have solved a special one that has tantalised mathematicians for a century. But his papers made not a single reference to Poincari or his conjecture. Even so, mathematicians the world over understood that he tackled the essential challenge. Once again the jury is still out: this time, however, his fellow mathematicians believe he may be onto something big. The plus: the multidimensional topology of space in three dimensions will seem simple at last and a million dollar reward will be there for the asking. The minus: the solver does not claim to have found a solution, he doesn't want the reward, and he certainly doesn't want to talk to the media. "There is good reason to think the kind of approach Perelman is taking is correct. However there are some problems. He is very reclusive, won't talk to the press, has shown no indication of publishing this as a paper, which you would have to do if you wanted to get the prize from the Clay Institute, and has shown no interest in the prize whatsoever," Dr Devlin said. "Has it been proved? We don't know. We have good reason to assume it has been and within the next 12 months, in the inner core of experts in differential geometry, which is the field we are speaking about, people will start to say, yes, OK, this looks right. But there is not going to be a golden moment." The implications of a proof of the Poincari conjecture would be enormous, but like the problem itself, very difficult to explain, he said. "It can't fail to have huge ramifications: not only the result, but the methods as well. At that level of abstraction, that level of connection, so much can follow. Differential geometry is the subject that is really underneath understanding everything about space and spacetime." Seven baffling pillars of wisdom 1 Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture Euclid geometry for the 21st century, involving things called abelian points and zeta functions and both finite and infinite answers to algebraic equations 2 Poincari conjecture The surface of an apple is simply connected. But the surface of a doughnut is not. How do you start from the idea of simple connectivity and then characterise space in three dimensions? 3 Navier-Stokes equation The answers to wave and breeze turbulence lie somewhere in the solutions to these equations 4 P vs NP problem Some problems are just too big: you can quickly check if an answer is right, but it might take the lifetime of a universe to solve it from scratch. Can you prove which questions are truly hard, which not? 5 Riemann hypothesis Involving zeta functions, and an assertion that all "interesting" solutions to an equation lie on a straight line. It seems to be true for the first 1,500 million solutions, but does that mean it is true for them all? 6 Hodge conjecture At the frontier of algebra and geometry, involving the technical problems of building shapes by "gluing" geometric blocks together 7 Yang-Mills and Mass gap A problem that involves quantum mechanics and elementary particles. Physicists know it, computers have simulated it but nobody has found a theory to explain it -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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RE: stegedetect & Variola's Suitcase
by Major Variola (ret) 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

At 11:57 AM 9/7/04 -0400, Sunder wrote: >The answer to that question depends on some leg work which involves >converting the source code to stegetect into hardware and seeing how fast >that hardware runs, then multiplying by X where X is how many of the chips >you can afford to build. A quick perusal of stegdetect.c, attending to how it analyzes jphide images, indicates that it computes histograms of DCT coefficients and then performs chi^2 tests on the distributions. Since this is fairly easy on a generic RISC CPU, one might be better off with a rack o' blades or even a cluster. Particularly because most JPGs will fit inside your typical 21st century-sized processor cache. Note that a streaming implementation is not easy because JPG data will have to be reassembled from transport-level packet quantization; e.g., a 200KB JPG is a lot of 1500 byte packets. Better to snarf & reassemble the JPG then analyze the whole captured image. Contrast this with e.g., block cipher accelerators that benefit from hardware implementation because they use bit-diddling not well supported by a typical instruction set. Or modexp() accelerators that benefit from parallelism. Joseph Holsten <pantosys(a)gmail.com> is right that its a complete waste (and not really stego) to look for data appended to the image data. Any data appended there, especially noise :-), will be suspicious. >I'd image that it's a lot faster to have some hw that gives you a yea/nay >on each JPG, than to say, attempt to crack DES. Stegdetect is performing a signal-detection task. As such, it measures a continuous variable, then thresholds it to make a decision. Therefore there is a tradeoff between sensitivity and false positives. For instance, I produced a test, jphide stego'd JPG which is *not* detected by stegdetect with default sensitivity, but using the "-s 3" argument it scores one asterisk. The steganographer can make the steganalysts' jobs much harder by keeping the S/N down, ie by only using short messages in large images. This is alluded to in the jphide pages: "Given a typical visual image, a low insertion rate (under 5%) and the absence of the original file, it is not possible to conclude with any worthwhile certainty that the host file contains inserted data." and follows from signal detection theory. It is also empirically true from some casual experimentation. Further commentary: * Stegdetect, though clever and well written (if poorly commented), barfs on a number of valid JPGs, including monochrome ones. * One could write a jphide variant which doesn't skew the coefficients e.g., if you use the upper half of an image for cargo, and the lower half to hide the changes. If instead of simplistic "halves" you used the passphrase to seed a PRNG you could disperse the cargo & re-balancing changes much more subtly. * MPx format files have great potential, for both image, image-N-tuple, and audio stego; is that http://irenarchy.org hip-hop recruiting video really just a video? (And is morphing someone into a sesame-street character "fair use"?) * Note that stego dictionary-attack breaking *would* benefit from compression- and crypto- accelerators for obvious reasons. But the topic here is stego detection. ------- Steganography is in the eye of the beholder. -Viktor.

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Re: stegedetect & Variola's Suitcase
by Tyler Durden 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Joseph Holsten wrote... >who are ya tryin to fool? Well, just in case it's not obvious, the clear issue here is whether the use of Stego is actually merely a red flag, in which case it may actually be worse than using nothing on some levels. If every message used it, though... -TD _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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RE: stegedetect & Variola's Suitcase
by Tyler Durden 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

So here's the 'obvious' question: How fast can dedicated hardware run if it were a dedicated Stegedetect processor? In other words, how easy would it be for NSA, et al to scan 'every' photo on the internet for Stego traces? (And then, every photo being emailed?) And then, how fast can someone write a worm that will make every photo stored on a harddrive look like it's been stegoed? -TD >From: Sunder <sunder(a)sunder.net> >To: cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net >Subject: stegedetect - looks like "we" need better mice >Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 05:53:08 -0400 (edt) > >http://freshmeat.net/projects/stegdetect/?branch_id=52957&release_id=172055 > >http://www.outguess.org/detection.php > >Steganography Detection with Stegdetect >Stegdetect is an automated tool for detecting steganographic content in >images. It is capable of detecting several different steganographic >methods to embed hidden information in JPEG images. Currently, the >detectable schemes are > > * jsteg, > * jphide (unix and windows), > * invisible secrets, > * outguess 01.3b, > * F5 (header analysis), > * appendX and camouflage. > >Stegbreak is used to launch dictionary attacks against JSteg-Shell, JPHide >and OutGuess 0.13b. > >Stegdetect and Stegbreak have been developed by Niels Provos. > > >----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- > + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ > \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ ><--*-->:and our people, and neither do we." -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ > /|\ : \|/ > + v + : War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx

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Re: Remailers an unsolveable paradox?
by Nomen Nescio 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

> We want to be able to provide the means for whistleblowers and > others to communicate in a secure and anonymous fashion. Yet we need > to make sure we're not abused too much since sooner or later laws > will catch up with the remailers should abuse sky-rocket. The ratio of remailer use to abuse is painfully low because there's no way to actually communicate. You can broadcast but not recieve, because no system exists to receive mail psuedononymously. This is not communication. Remailer use is restricted to when senders don't care about listenerssss, which means rants, death threats, and the abuse of spam. The only systems for receiving mail are at best some college student's unimplemented thesis. Let's take our shining example of truth and freedom, the whistle-blower. When they send out mail to the media or whomever, one of two things happens: they see the story published or they don't. If not, there's no idea why: was it received? Did the media want more information? Did they need more support? Do they want to verify it? Do they want to help the whistle-blower? Even if the story is published, whistle-blowing is kneecapped: it can't be supported, or expanded on, or debated in any but the most rudimentary fashion. It doesn't matter if remailers disappear, they've already failed.

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Digital content spurs micropayments resurgence
by R. A. Hettinga 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

<http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104_2-5347513.html?tag=printthis> Digital content spurs micropayments resurgence By Matt Hines CNET News.com September 7, 2004, 4:00 AM PT URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5347513.html Think small. With its meteoric rise to success, Apple Computer's iTunes digital music service not only changed perceptions about whether consumers were willing to pay for online content, but it also highlighted the rising promise of micropayments. On Tuesday, 2-year-old BitPass, a payment company in Palo Alto, Calif., is expected to announce $11.75 million in venture capital, along with the news that former American Express Chairman James Robinson III will join its board of directors. Robinson is also a partner in one of the firms investing in BitPass, New York-based RRE Ventures. News.context What's new: The success of digital music sales has purveyors of micropayment services humming a happy tune. Bottom line:Micropayments have failed to become a macro-business, but the increasing popularity of digital content could bring a cloudburst of pennies from heaven. More stories on micropayments While credit card companies and online transaction specialists like PayPal are ringing up bigger sales online, business models aimed at helping e-commerce vendors facilitate smaller deals, or micropayments, are getting a boost from digital content sales. If this sounds familiar, it should. But the so-called Internet currency vendors of the dot-com era, companies including Beenz, Flooz and DigiCash, failed to generate enough business fostering micropayments to survive. Fast-forward a few years, and news that iTunes topped 125 million downloads last week is more evidence that digital content may hold the key to unlocking the low end of e-commerce. Micropayments are typified by the 99 cents that iTunes charges to download a song or the $2.99 users might see on their Cingular Wireless phone bills after buying a custom ring tone. According to recent research published by TowerGroup, the total market for Internet and wireless micropayments, led by demand for digital content, will increase by 23 percent annually over the next five years to reach $11.5 billion by 2009. TowerGroup, based in Needham, Mass., charted the micropayments market at just over $2 billion in 2003. Bruce Cundiff, an analyst with Jupiter Research, thinks the e-commerce market is in its third or fourth wave of development of micropayment technologies. The success of iTunes, coupled with continued growth of broadband, will make digital content the catalyst that pushes the sector forward rapidly, Cundiff said. "What it comes down to is that there simply must be a viable transaction model for smaller-cost products to make a dollar off e-commerce sales, but I think with what we've seen already in digital media, it's clear that people are figuring out how to make it work," Cundiff said. Tuning up for takeoff Web shoppers have historically preferred to pay with credit cards. But because credit card companies typically charges fees for processing and customer service on every transaction, credit cards can be an extremely inefficient way of making a small purchase, with the fees often eating most of the profit margin. Still consumers have begun to get used to the idea of buying small items over the Net. Growth of the digital content market seems almost a certainty, based on the projected expansion of segments including music services, Internet publishing, and applications for mobile devices, such as custom ring tones or games. Cambridge, Mass., analyst firm Forrester Research has predicted that music downloads alone will become a $1.4 billion business by 2006, accounting for nearly 10 percent of annual music sales in the United States. Jupiter Research estimates that revenue from online content will reach $3.1 billion by 2009, driven by an increasing number of broadband-ready homes spending money on Web-based music services, games and e-books, among other things. Industry experts agree that iTunes deserves a lot of the credit for opening consumers' eyes to the option of buying online in micro-size increments, and most seem to feel that digital content will continue to dominate the market for small Web-based transactions. "Micropayments don't just represent buying low-priced items. They can also can be used to get people to test new products, or try out a service that charges a lot more for a subscription." --analyst Nick Holland, Mercator Advisory Group According to Nick Holland, an analyst with Shrewsbury, Mass.-based Mercator Advisory Group, growth of the micropayments market will be almost completely dependent on music, ring tones and games, specifically, at least for the next several years. The analyst estimates that such content will constitute a $2.3 billion market in the United States this year alone, and while Holland said subscriptions will remain consumers' favorite method of payment for digital content, wider use of micropayments will increase opportunities for vendors to lure new customers. "Micropayments don't just represent buying low-priced items," Holland said. "They can also be used to get people to test new products, or try out a service that charges a lot more for a subscription. There's certainly demand for downloads, ring tones and pay-as-you-go gaming, but it remains to be seen how profitable this market can be using micropayments." For officials at eBay's online transaction subsidiary, PayPal--who say the company is already handling millions of low-dollar transactions--it is clear that digital content represents the most promising opportunity for immediate growth in micropayments. Peter Ashley, director of business development for San Jose, Calif.-based PayPal, believes that with iTunes, Apple drew up a template that many other companies will try to emulate. "Once there is ability for more companies to facilitate smaller charges, going as far down as pennies, nickels and dimes, without incurring the same sort of credit card transaction fees you see today, new businesses will open that simply could not exist in the past," Ashley said. The executive envisions transaction systems soon allowing e-commerce companies to process any transaction, no matter how small, letting people creating new kinds of digital content, such as games or ring tones, to more profitably market their wares. Ashley said that PayPal's role as an established leader in online transaction processing will give it the ability to watch other firms test the waters with different micropayment systems before it begins more actively pursuing the market. PayPal parent eBay is already piloting a program that lets a select group of people auction digital music via its site, a test which could illustrate how profitable it can be for individuals or smaller companies to execute the smaller deals inherent to digital music sales. "We've already had to develop a unique product for the music pilot, and we're excited about seeing other areas of the market develop," said Ashley. "The opportunity is huge, say, if you consider how many wireless customers there are out there. You get an idea of how significant the demand for content like ring tones or screen savers could become." How the deal is won The biggest question facing the micropayments market is just what method of transaction will appeal to consumers while allowing vendors to slice out enough profit to keep small-ticket sales lucrative. Apple has admitted that iTunes is not a major source of revenue. It works primarily as a sales tool for its iPod digital music players. Apple does a majority of its business with credit cards but also offers payments methods ranging from stored-value accounts to gift certificates. But smaller companies looking to build their core businesses around marketing digital content must have alternatives to credit cards--including subscriptions, prepaid accounts, merchant charge aggregation and direct-to-bill. In the wireless sector, direct-to-bill is expected to continue to lead. Mobile-service providers encourage customers to download content onto their devices, with the cost added to their wireless bills. Subscriptions remain preferable for content providers in other areas because they allow companies to more easily digest credit card transaction fees, because monthly or annual fees are typically larger transactions. "Subscriptions are what every vendor wants to sell, but you have to start somewhere with the consumer, and the other types of micropayments can allow companies to do get in the door with buyers," said Mercator's Holland. "A lot of content companies are going to look at micropayments as a stepping stone to future subscriptions." ""That first wave of payment technologies, the currency companies especially, were too early in the development of e-commerce to succeed." --BitPass CEO Michael O'Donnell Among the vendors vying for a place on the micropayments landscape with alternative payment technologies are firms including BitPass and Peppercoin, which are taking markedly different approaches to the sector. Peppercoin serves as a micropayment transaction aggregator that helps vendors save money on credit card charges, while BitPass markets stored-credit accounts and transaction processing to help facilitate both buyers and sellers. BitPass' system works much like the prepaid calling cards you can buy at many convenience stores. Customers put money into debit accounts and can use the funds at any site affiliated with the company. Vendors can begin accepting the BitPass cards simply by downloading a free software client provided by the company. "That first wave of payment technologies, the currency companies especially, were too early in the development of e-commerce to succeed, and the content companies weren't ready to handle it either," said Michael O'Donnell, chief executive of BitPass. "We're seeing an online payment evolution moving from free content, to subscriptions, and now per-item sales, with the options for vendors and consumers growing quickly." At Peppercoin, the emphasis is placed squarely on e-commerce vendors. The Waltham, Mass., company acts as a proxy between vendors and credit card companies, allowing its users to aggregate their small-value transactions into larger bills to cut down on the fees charged them by the credit card companies themselves. Peppercoin signed a deal with the Smithsonian Institute last year to help the organization begin marketing music files stored in its archives on a per-song basis. The organization had previously struggled to do so, based on the percentage of its income that was in turn headed back out to the credit companies in the form of transaction fees. According to Rob Carney, vice president of marketing at Peppercoin, increased demand for digital content is driving short-term growth of micropayments, but the potential for the market is far greater. "Online digital content sales, specifically for music, are generating more attention for micropayments than ever before, but it makes sense, because what are you going to sell for dollars online that you have to pay to ship?" Carney said. "Digital content is leading the way, but it's really just the thin edge of the wedge when you consider the possibilities in the physical world as well." -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: What are the risks associated with partially know cipher keys
by Werner Koch 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:24:39 +0800, Padraig MacIain said: > problem. However, does it offer a great risk for something like > OpenPGP if the passphrase used to access the secretkey is partially That depends on quality of the passphrase; it makes dictionary attacks easier. > compromised? And in turn if the passphrase is completely known yet the > secret key is still secured (physically) does knowing this passphrase > risk a complete compromise of the key pair? No. The protection of the private key is is independent of the key. They are in no way related. The key is based on a random string and only the protection of this key is based on the passphrase. This protection only helps against a lost (but protected) private key. Salam-Shalom, Werner

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Gilmore case: CNN
by J.A. Terranson 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/06/airline.id.ap/index.html Government wants ID arguments secret Monday, September 6, 2004 Posted: 4:07 PM EDT (2007 GMT) SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Justice has asked an appellate court to keep its arguments secret for a case in which privacy advocate John Gilmore is challenging federal requirements to show identification before boarding an airplane. A federal statute and other regulations "prohibit the disclosure of sensitive security information, and that is precisely what is alleged to be at issue here," the government said in court papers filed Friday with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Disclosing the restricted information "would be detrimental to the security of transportation," the government wrote. Attorneys for Gilmore, a 49-year-old San Francisco resident who co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group, said they don't buy the government's argument and that its latest request raises only more questions. "We're dealing with the government's review of a secret law that now they want a secret judicial review for," one of Gilmore's attorneys, James Harrison, said in a phone interview Sunday. "This administration's use of a secret law is more dangerous to the security of the nation than any external threat." Gilmore first sued the government and several airlines in July 2002 after airline agents refused to let him board planes in San Francisco and Oakland without first showing an ID or submitting to a more intense search. He claimed in his lawsuit the ID requirement was vague and ineffective and violated his constitutional protections against illegal searches and seizures. A U.S. District Court judge earlier this year dismissed his claims against the airlines, but said his challenge to the government belonged in a federal appellate court. Now in his appellate case, Gilmore maintains the federal government has yet to disclose the regulations behind the ID requirement to which he was subjected. "How are people supposed to follow laws if they don't know what they are?" Harrison said. The government contends its court arguments should be sealed from public view and heard before a judge outside the presence of Gilmore and his attorneys. The government, however, said it would plan to file another redacted public version of its arguments. A date for a hearing on the matter has not yet been set.

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stegedetect - looks like "we" need better mice
by Sunder 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

http://freshmeat.net/projects/stegdetect/?branch_id=52957&release_id=172055 http://www.outguess.org/detection.php Steganography Detection with Stegdetect Stegdetect is an automated tool for detecting steganographic content in images. It is capable of detecting several different steganographic methods to embed hidden information in JPEG images. Currently, the detectable schemes are * jsteg, * jphide (unix and windows), * invisible secrets, * outguess 01.3b, * F5 (header analysis), * appendX and camouflage. Stegbreak is used to launch dictionary attacks against JSteg-Shell, JPHide and OutGuess 0.13b. Stegdetect and Stegbreak have been developed by Niels Provos. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ <--*-->:and our people, and neither do we." -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + : War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Test - Ignore.
by Neil Johnson 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Test. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

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