--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does anybody have a stego program along the lines of Peter Wayner's Mimic Functions? I'm looking for something that you can hand a grammar and a set of bits that will produce sentences in the grammar, plus a decoder that can take the sentences and reconstruct the bits. I have a friend who lives in a kleptocratic country where the local bureaucrats have made it clear they'll confiscate the main email node in his town if they catch traffic they recognize as encrypted, and text in some non-popular language may be less obvious than, say, Mandelbrot sets with stego-bits or other artwork. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think Texto is what you are looking for, and it is available from the cypherpunks archive in the steganography directory. If you can't find it, drop me a private note and I'll mail it to you... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Mr./Mrs. Lucifer Hi, we are two students studying in Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In order to graduate, we need to have a senior project and we decided to write an application using Steganography. We are especially interested in using Context Free Grammar as a basis to develop the application; in other words, we want to conceal secret messages in seemingly innocuous text. We did some research and found out that mimic function may be able to help us. However, we have a hard time figuring out how this mimic function works and how to actually encode our information. After searching on the Web, we found this message and thought that you might be able to help us to finish our project. Can we read the source code and figure out how to do it? We plan to write the whole application in Java and we want to develope some kind of instant message user interface, like AIM, or ICQ. We will definitely be ethical about coding and documenting all the material that we borrow. This is the link that I found the message: http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.96.08.29-96.09.04/msg00044.html Yours Sincerely, Bae-Shi Huang Chris