[11081] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: FC: Politech challenge: Decode Al Qaeda stego-communications!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin E. Fu)
Wed Jul 10 21:44:47 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:49:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Kevin E. Fu" <fubob@MIT.EDU>
To: <rms@computerbytesman.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-reply-to: "[11076] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive"
Where is the substantiated evidence? Where that news report lacks in
facts, it makes up for with entertainment. Of course terrorists are
communicating via Web sites. Lots of people communicate via the Web.
The only person publicly searching for hidden terrorist messages
hasn't found any. And he's using sound analytical techniques.
See http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/stego/
-Kevin
>Militants wire Web with links to jihad
>http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/07/10/web-terror-cover.htm
>
>Lately, al-Qaeda operatives have been sending hundreds of encrypted
>messages that have been hidden in files on digital photographs on the
>auction site eBay.com. Most of the messages have been sent from Internet
>cafes in Pakistan and public libraries throughout the world. An eBay
>spokesperson did not return phone calls.
>
>The volume of the messages has nearly doubled in the past month,
>indicating to some U.S. intelligence officials that al-Qaeda is planning
>another attack.
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