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. 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. ----------------------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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
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?