xor data hiding?

Perry E. Metzger pmetzger at lehman.com
Wed Jul 14 08:47:40 PDT 1993



J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl at triton.unm.edu> says:
> According to Douglas Sinclair:

> The point wasn't to be unbreakably secure; it was to be UNFINDABLY
> secure.  We convolute an allready encrypted message to the point of
> not being recognizable as cyphertext, then we hide it on the end of
> a file.  We want it to look like garbage.

Cyphertext from any decent system ALREADY looks random. Whats the
point of doing more to it?

Perry






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