Real-world steganography
Bram Cohen
bram at gawth.com
Mon Sep 30 21:38:53 PDT 2002
Peter Gutmann wrote:
> I recently came across a real-world use of steganography which hides extra
> data in the LSB of CD audio tracks to allow (according to the vendor) the
> equivalent of 20-bit samples instead of 16-bit and assorted other features.
I don't think that's really 'steganography' per se, since no attempt is
made to hide the fact that the information is in there. The quasi-stego
used is just to prevent bad audio artifacts from happening.
-Bram Cohen
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