Re: easy stealth encryption?
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Re: easy stealth encryption?

From: Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@engsoc.org>
Date: Wed Jan 18 2006 - 17:49:57 CET

Encrypted data is highly random. Far more random than program code.
There have been many papers written on how to find encrypted data
within a binary.

It will be noticed by a professional.

JLC

In sci.crypt Anonymous <anon-bounces@deuxpi.ca> wrote:
> How about this?

> you encrypt a file and call it abc.dll. You have another dll, xyz.dll.
> That could also be an encrypted file.

> You run a little program that exchanges every other byte between the two
> files.

> Could the TLA figure out that they are something other than ordinay binary
> garbage?

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Received on Thu Jan 19 03:44:56 2006