Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis

gManZboy writes "Two researchers in China has taken a look at the steganography vs. steganalysis arms race. Steganography (hiding data) has drawn more attention recently, as those concerned about information security have recognized that illicit use of the technique might become a threat (to companies or even states). Researchers have thus increased study of steganalysis, the detection of embedded information."

Great movie title!

[Guano_Jim]

Secret Data: Steganography v Steganalysis

Throw in a Stegosaurus [kdsi.net] and we've got a real Destroy All Monsters [imdb.com] vibe going.

Run! It's Steganalysis!

/crushes Tokyo

This reply is funny, inciteful and informative

[Silver Sloth]

But it's hidden

Extinct?

[Chappy01]

I thought the Steganalysis was extinct...that's public school education for you.

Hiding data ...pfft

[pronobozo]

As if you can hide information in places that nobody would find, just doesn't seem like a plausible direction for security.

An easy way to hide information

[Anonymous Coward]

Hide it on slashdot by posting at level 0. No one will think to look, and there's an unlimited storage potential.

Finding hidden messages?

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Re:Hmm (cracked)

[product byproduct]

I think thIs iS The way of the FutuRe
with regardS To encryPtiOn.

You've got a nicely steganographed "first post" there.

Re:Hiding data ...pfft

[justforaday]

I don't get it...Could someone please tell me what the secret message is?

Re:fun stuff

[SlayerofGods]

It's hard to brute force something when you don't know how it was hidden in the first place.
You can only design a brute force attack once you know how it was hidden in the first place. And the amount of different ways to do that right now precludes such an attack.
Maybe once a standard for steganography is agreed on we can get started on ways to crack it ;)

Secret Stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

I hide all my secret information in fake research papers on steganalysis. They never think to look there.

v Stegosaurus!

[Mustang Matt]

I'll put my money on the dinosaur

Googlefight

[Anonymous Coward]

Googlefight! [googlefight.com]

Steganography wins.

I have used this technique for decades!

[museumpeace]

hidden somewhere "in plain sight" in the code I turn in, is a program that actually works and has no bugs.

OK I give up

[fbform]

What's the message that's hidden in your post? :-)

Re:Wasn't that his point? MOD PARENT DOWN

[nacturation]

... and so's your mother! Sheesh, you thought I wouldn't catch that insult buried in your text?

Re:Hmm (cracked)

[waveclaw]

You've got a nicely steganographed "first post" there.

Yeah, well thanks to this article, I'm trying to find hidden information in the fortune cookie at the bottom of this very same article:

In /users3 did Kubla Kahn A stately pleasure dome decree, Where /bin, the sacred river ran Through Test Suites measureless to Man Down to a sunless C.

So far all I've got is that either puns on computing terms or directions to asassinate Bill Gates while he sunbathes by a middle-eastern riverbank during a total eclipse of the sun.