From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 00:32:23 PST
To: CCGARY@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Gary Jeffers)
Subject: Re: Standard for Stenography?
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> Here are my proposed standards & suggestions for stenography.
> 
> 1. The stenography module is just a simple program for inserting data

> stenography. No security through obscurity. No "TOWERS of BABBLE".

> 2. The 1st position of the stenography is defined as the 1st pixel

> checksum; "STENOGRAPHY"; the encrypted text

> consists of the word "STENOGRAPHY" in caps. The remainder is devoted

>    The reason for the "STENOGRAPHY" field is to assist your computer in
> determining if this is a stenography file & that the correct key was

Wasn't stenography standardized in the last century? Or am I thinking
of shorthand?

Though I avoid spelling flames, the repeated confusion of
steganography ("covered/hidden writing") with what court reporters and
secretaries do is really getting to me.

And the statistics of the low-order bits in various sorts of images
were discussed about six months ago here, by various folks.

--Tim May


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