| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 2 Aug 2000 at 19:54:53 |
| Subject: | Re: Programming encryption (poss OT) |
hi,
> Putting the encrypted message in a hunk by itself isn't very secure.
> It's the equivalent of putting the key under the doormat, far too easy
> to find.
only if you know about those formats....all government departments interested
in computer related crime and data retrieval are very very uneducated about
the Amiga
> You don't need to tie it to a format, it overwrites bits in the actual
> image or sound data. That's why you have to use the type of data that
> can stand minor corruption, changing a few bits in an archive or
> executable would be rather destructive.
of course. and nobody would mind a picture that was slightly 'brighter' than
it should have been.. only 1bit out of 256 bits changed..nice! :-)
> As befits the topic, it's all hidden in the ;last place any Amiga user
> looks... Aminet
wierd! I actually did a search on aminet (www.aminet.net) and didnt get
it..perhaps because I used the full name for searching... if I'd just typed
'steg' I'd have got the answer 8-)
alan
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