Vector Steganography

Aphriza writes "DirectionsMag.com has the third in a series on steganography and its uses in a vector format. Its not just for terrorists any more. Plus the scripts are GNU copylefted."

Re:hoax?

[Green Light]

Umm, yep, you're right, you haven't read the article...

This Steganography has nothing to do with your skull, which we now have to wonder about (your skull, that is).

Re:hoax?

[PD]

He must be thinking of phrenology.

Re:hoax?

[ActiveSX]

I can see how you could get the two confused.

Vector Steganography & Flash?

[breon.halling]

Perhaps this will lead to some kind of steg utility for Flash.

Could be interesting to embed a different image for every frame of the animation!

Just a thought...

Workaround...

[chennes]

Unfortunately, I don't see that there is much hope for this actually succeeding as a real tool to watermark data. It is too easy to simply spline all of the data and recalculate the points, obliterating the watermark. Further, a lot of software simply does that automatically to smooth out the data. As soon as it is saved again, the stego is gone.

Re:Workaround...

[chennes]

True, except that these methods are probably not intended for watermarking, but rather merely to hide data.

Actually, according to the article, that is one of its major intended purposes. While this particular type of stego could be used for many other purposes, it's primary focus is on watermarking geological survey data so that people who use it illegally can be caught.

Re:Two errors in summary

[catwh0re]

the irony is that there are more grammar errors in the troll-speak than the original... good job

pdf/ps form also allows "vector" steganography

[retiarius]

years ago, ed mccreight of adobe mentioned
off-handedly to me that font data can easily
be overspecified (as floating-point),
yet compatible with standard decoders.
naturally, this admits the possibility
of subliminal messages in ordinary-looking
acrobat format.

further, even plain ASCII emailable text
(e.g. slashdot messages, legal briefs, C code,
email to be archived at the u.s. whitehouse,
intelligence-gathering agencies, etc.) can be
(or already has been!) subjected to this
simple appearance-preserving treatment.
for further elucidation, see:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=114 89&cid=314165