From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 17:30:07 +0800
To: "ncognito@gate.net>
Subject: RE: Mimic Function Stego Programs?
Message-ID: <19960830062418937.AAA214@IO-ONLINE.COM>
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On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:34:05 -0400 (EDT), Damien Lucifer wrote:

>I've been working on a text steg'ing program for a while that operates 
>under a different premise, however. It keeps a dictionary of word pairs, 
>with each word in the pair being a synonym for the other.  It will read 
>which is why I never finished the decoder. Once i started encoding things, 
>and realizing how little could be hidden in this manner, I stopped working 

>At the moment the dictionary is very small; nearly all of the words are 
>relevant to only pornographic text (since porno is both predictable, and 
>repetitive, i thought it would be a good place to start). :) 
And it would let you hide stuff using a flood of Usenet alt.sex.stories posts
that could be forwarded somewhere....


It sounds mainly like your program is limited by the small dictionary size. 
Perhaps you could work up a front end that would make it very easy to extend
the dictionary?

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