From mdiehl at triton.unm.edu  Wed Jul 14 22:36:32 1993
From: mdiehl at triton.unm.edu (J. Michael Diehl)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 22:36:32 PDT
Subject: xor data hiding?
In-Reply-To: <9307141547.AA28336@snark.shearson.com>
Message-ID: <9307150536.AA03891@triton.unm.edu>


According to Perry E. Metzger:
> J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl at triton.unm.edu> says:
> > According to Douglas Sinclair:
> > The point wasn't to be unbreakably secure; it was to be UNFINDABLY
> > secure.  We convolute an allready encrypted message to the point of
> > not being recognizable as cyphertext, then we hide it on the end of
> > a file.  We want it to look like garbage.
> 
> Cyphertext from any decent system ALREADY looks random. Whats the
> point of doing more to it?

Many encryption tools such as ripem, pgp, and dolphin can recognize their own
output...which indicates that there is a footprint to that particular
implimentation.

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