Cryptographic stenography could thwart Internet censorship

http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/scheme-may-thwart-internet-censorship/

by aneth • 15 years ago

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yaakov34• 15 years ago

Can someone edit the submission to say "steganography"?

montibbalt• 15 years ago

I kind of like the idea of having a person typing encrypted strings REALLY FAST

Hoff• 15 years ago

Beyond an approach based on steganography and on obfuscating the traffic, re-using and extending the work developed to harden botnet command and control channels would seem a good model for robust communications.

If this re-use has not already been deployed.

bdhe• 15 years ago

Research website: https://telex.cc/

Paper: https://telex.cc/paper.html

Previous discussions:

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2775988

2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790146

All in all, the community consensus is unclear about how useful Telex will be. It is definitely a novel idea though.

rw2• 15 years ago

For comparison, I recently released Plainsight, a textual steganography tool: http://github.com/rw/plainsight.

(Video link in the project desc.)

bochi• 15 years ago

Interesting! I've created an open-source library in Go to hide text on images: http://strogonoff-demo.appspot.com/

nitrogen• 15 years ago

You mean all this time what I thought was spam was actually someone sending me encrypted messages?

Or, less humorously: this will turn your encrypted message from "suspicious" into "spam."

rw2• 15 years ago

Yes. Making your data look like the haystack.

jberryman• 15 years ago

This reminds me of blue boxing; the initial decoy https connection is the equivalent of dialing an 800 number, during which the switch is commandeered with the proper tones and the hacker can dial out to wherever he wants. to the telco it looks like he just made a 3 hour call to an 800.

rufibarbatus• 15 years ago

That depends on HTTPS not being somehow blocked, impeded or stripped. Is this a good enough assumption? (Honestly curious.)

Cryptographic stenography could thwart Internet censorship

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