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Re: Real-world steganography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Oct 1 10:13:51 2002
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:59:36 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, cypherpunks@lne.com
Peter Gutmann wrote:
> I recently came across a real-world use of steganography which hides extra
> data in the LSB of CD audio tracks to allow (according to the vendor) the
> equivalent of 20-bit samples instead of 16-bit and assorted other features.
> According to the vendors, "HDCD has been used in the recording of more than
> 5,000 CD titles, which include more than 250 Billboard Top 200 recordings and
> more than 175 GRAMMY nominations", so it's already fairly widely deployed.
Yeah, right - and green felt-tip around the edges of your CD improves
the sound, too.
Cheers,
Ben.
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