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

Richard Outerbridge outer at interlog.com
Thu Jun 8 17:23:25 EDT 2017


> On 2017-06-07 (158), at 16:33:09, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

What if it were to be applied to the texts of received texts, like ”The Gold Bug”?

Would it come out the same, each time, every time?
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