[Cryptography] stego mechanism used in real life (presumably), then outed

[Kent Borg]

On 06/07/2017 03:34 PM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> You'd want it to avoid editing any direct quotes, but otherwise there
> are a dozen things you could do to most sentences in English to change
> the word order or clausal structure that wouldn't affect the information
> content at all.  Two or three per thousand characters, and leaked text
> would become easily traceable.

Stego or not, this sounds like a useful utility for cheating students: 
Rewrite plagiarized material so as to be harder to catch. Not a perfect 
solution, but a salvo in the arms race that must be going on in that realm.

-kb, the Kent who doesn't hang out in that world anymore.