Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net> writes:
geeman@best.com wrote:
It wasn't worth commenting on. Appending data after the ctrl-Z as stego? Not even worth a letter to the ed!
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
No one even commented on the latest Dr. Dobbs issue.
After seeing the initial post, I ran out to get a copy, but they were all gone. I find it hard to believe that appending data to a file is considered stego, even by a commercial publication such as Dr. Dobb's. Can anyone confirm this?
I agree that Dr.Dobb's ain't what it used to was (they mention that Bruce Scheneier is a contributing editor - a bad sign), but this issue was worth getting. 1. A very interesting interview with Eva Bozoki, chief scientist as Digital Secure Networks Technology. Among other fascinating stuff she complains about export controls. 2. "The RIPEMD-160 Cryptographic Hash Function" (with C source code). 3. A nice article explaining Reed-Solomon error correction, with nice-looking C source code. 4. An announcement of a free compression library (the article only discusses the APIs, not the internals). 5. A discussion on hooking system calls in WinNT, allowing a program to monitor system activity. 6. "Steganography for DOS programmers." Yes, it suggests putting data to be hidden after a ctrl-Z, which hardly qualifies as stego, IMO. Not a good article. 7. An article on extended MAPI 1.0 (I was looking for a place for crypto hooks), announcing some inetersting code. 8. A discussing of publishing databases on the internet, including payment systems. 9. A discussion if fractal-based compression (again, API's, not the guts). Other interesting stuff with no crypto-relevance. ...
I guess at the time their philosophy was something like "Yes, we live in a world of crap, so, since we have to make a living with this crap, let's deny that it's crap so we can continue to sell the stuff", etc. Kinda like *certain* c-punks, who have nothing to say, so they blame myself or Dr. Vulis for interfering with their degenerate doings on the c-punks list.
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