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Is there stenographic encoding for binary sort of like Base64 that outputs full human-readable sentences? So much bad prose on the internet, it seems feasible

by cwkoss 7y ago

Is there stenographic encoding for binary sort of like Base64 that outputs full human-readable sentences? So much bad prose on the internet, it seems feasible to make this hard to distinguish from human-written text. Plus you could have multiple codings for values, allowing non-deterministic encoding but deterministic decoding. How do you prove that the giant integer which represents this text is a random result of my thoughts rather than encoded information?

joe_the_user 7y ago
Sure, take your binary, use some markov-chain expansion to yield a human-text seeming expansion and then compress that with standard efficient compression. The results shouldn't be that much larger than the original compressed then encrypted binary. Most large text gets sent compressed around the net anyway.
codedokode 7y ago
It is much easier to hide information masqueraded as image or video compression artifacts. Imagine how much you can hide in a single Youtube video.
Bokanovsky 7y ago
Something like using a book cipher[1]? But a binary equivalent maybe? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cipher
bediger4000 7y ago
Well, the US has handled other difficult issues with super-vague laws, like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1984, which appears to have been used at least as recently as 2011. If you have a weird law like the CFAA, a nation can also do the Chinese Government's "One eye open, one eye shut" vaguely vague policy, where unpredictably, the CFAA is enforced very harshly, usually on someone totally unlikeable. This makes everyone else very wary of stepping over some boundary, never mind that nobody knows where that boundary is, so everyone is very conservative in approaching issues with the law. By applying such a law infrequently, and on unlikeable defendants, the government makes it very difficult to challenge the law itself.

by cwkoss 7y ago

joe_the_user 7y ago

Sure, take your binary, use some markov-chain expansion to yield a human-text seeming expansion and then compress that with standard efficient compression. The results shouldn't be that much larger than the original compressed then encrypted binary. Most large text gets sent compressed around the net anyway.

codedokode 7y ago

It is much easier to hide information masqueraded as image or video compression artifacts. Imagine how much you can hide in a single Youtube video.

Bokanovsky 7y ago

Something like using a book cipher[1]? But a binary equivalent maybe? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cipher

bediger4000 7y ago

Well, the US has handled other difficult issues with super-vague laws, like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1984, which appears to have been used at least as recently as 2011. If you have a weird law like the CFAA, a nation can also do the Chinese Government's "One eye open, one eye shut" vaguely vague policy, where unpredictably, the CFAA is enforced very harshly, usually on someone totally unlikeable. This makes everyone else very wary of stepping over some boundary, never mind that nobody knows where that boundary is, so everyone is very conservative in approaching issues with the law. By applying such a law infrequently, and on unlikeable defendants, the government makes it very difficult to challenge the law itself.