From pmetzger at lehman.com  Wed Jul 14 08:47:40 1993
From: pmetzger at lehman.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 08:47:40 PDT
Subject: xor data hiding?
In-Reply-To: <9307140017.AA03238@triton.unm.edu>
Message-ID: <9307141547.AA28336@snark.shearson.com>



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?

Perry