Re: def'n of "computer network"

rick hoselton writes:

Perry, I don't understand. If the least significant bits in my gif file follow all the "known statistical distributions", how can anyone know whether they are "just noise" or are an encrypted message,

Indeed -- how could the recipient even know to look, unless these things arrived regularly and with a fully standardized form of stegonography, in which case why bother, all you've done is come up with a very odd form of transfer encoding. If the recipient does know to look, that implies either that there is a hint, in which case the stegonography is useless, or it implies that you have prearrangement, in which case my comments on prearrangement hold. .pm