Re: STEG: a real-life use for steganography

The biggest problem I see with your scheme is that it won't remain secret for very long, and the government will probably just ban all CD imports as a result. And possession of a CD player or CDs (even "legit" ones) would be enough to send you off to kamp.

-- A decryption system to get the data off the CD.

There's a practical problem here. Audio CD players generally provide no easy way to get the raw bits into a computer (SPDIF interface cards exist for PCs, but they're rare and expensive). And I haven't yet figured out how to get a CD-ROM drive to read the raw bits off an audio CD; I suspect it requires munging the firmware in the drive, which makes anything you do highly manufacturer specific. Phil