CDR: Re: stego for the censored

[Ray Dillinger]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, David Honig wrote:

>At 10:52 AM 10/6/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>>For the sake of us audiophiles, please don't.  MP3 is tinny and flat 
>>at best;
>
>Then why are you 'audiophiles' traumatizing yourselves by listening
>to it?

For the most part, I'm not.  I had just hoped to have a better 
music format available on the web, and it looks like MP3 is blocking
it from happening.

>We're talking about covertext, not rec.audio.cypherpunks.audiophile

To your message recipient, it's covertext.  To everybody else 
who downloads tunes, (since you're talking about putting stego
in *all* MP3s downloaded from your site) it's degraded sound 
quality.

Understand, it's your site and you do what you want: I'm just saying 
MP3 is already too thin. My crypto-relevant warning to you is that 
if you stego it at all heavily, the difference will be audible to 
some people.  Even if you can't hear the difference, somebody (maybe 
a lot of somebodys) will be able to, and this could tip snoops off 
to the existence of the stegogram.  

				Bear