Net News as Cover Traffic

[David Honig]

At 11:58 AM 12/1/00 -0500, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>
>Yes, different.  alt.anonymous.messages is simply a message mix.  
>I'm talking about a system that would provide lots of encrypted 
>traffic *ON THE SAME PORTS* as whatever other encrypted traffic 
>you were sending.  IOW, no one should be able to look at logs and 
>say, "well, we can ignore that packet, it's NNTP.  This other 
>packet over here is mail, and probably the thing we're after..."

Do you really think all those pictures flying about on
pictures-binary newsgroups are really of what they seem to be? :-) 

Look beneath the flab.

Steganography.  Crypto implications of cheap scanners, and a year
or so later, affordable digital cameras.  Even some hidden cargo
compartments in MP3.