Natural Language Steganography and an \AI-complete" Security Primitive
Richard Bergmair · 2006
In order to sketch, why steganography is such an important topic, and has received far too little attention from the hacker community in the past, let me quickly challenge our view of cryptosystems as commonly built in the context of military or commercial applications: Cryptosystems are designed to protect our sensitive data from evil arbitrators. Wrong. Well, maybe not. But then again, what is evil? Basically one could say, hacker ethics is about protecting a good individual from a bad society and this has some severe consequences in the construction of secure communication systems. In particular, I would like to draw our attention to the evil spy, we are envisioning, when we think about cryptosystems, who intercepts sensitive military communication, and to the criminal who fakes banking transactions. Most often, what we have in mind, when we build cryptosystems is a bad individual in a good society, which is rather some instance of witch hunt ethics. In practice this assumption has the simple incarnation, that cryptograms are vulnerable to detection, since a good society would encourage the use of cryptography