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I'm a bit drunk, so uh, yeah.

LSB steganography is trivially easy to detect. Do not use LSB steganography.

Steganography can be provably secure, with the correct amounts of plain text and "cover data".

Here's one PDF. (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/PSS.pdf)

Some people need this kind of stuff to work to avoid torture or other serious consequences, but most implementations are toys to demonstrate proof of concept or to play with the ideas.

tl:dr a real cryptographer will be along to correct my mistakes and provide sensible links.



I'm not a cryptographer.

That said: the PDF you link to seems to show that provably secure steganography (as defined by this paper) exists if, and only if, one-way functions exist. (See section 5.3)

It so happens that if one-way functions exist then, as a corollary, P != NP. In other words: if steganography is provably secure, P != NP.

So let's not get ahead of ourselves. ;-)


Isn't a hashing function one-wayish enough?


But is it provably mathematically one way?




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