nice articles on securityfocus about defeating honeypots:

Part 1
hxxp://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1826
Part 2
hxxp://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1828

Yes steganography is indeed a growing science at this stage and i would really suggest & appreciate if we started a seperate section on this forum moderated by one of our seniors here that is specified for steganography. It is a pain in the back yes, but it is definitely going to benefit our growing knowledge.

Any comments are always welcomeD!

What harm can steganography possibly do.....I'm not one of those people who believe "Terrorists" use steganography....

I am confused once connected to a honeypot you have been recorded, So in order to detect it as a honeypot you would have to measure the various execution times. So you would already be detected and logged.

I guess I would need to know more about honeypots and their usefulness before I understood this article.

well "aelphaeis_mangarae" steganography does not bring harm to systems you are right... but how do the trojans work? how do covert communication take place?...etc its the same principal

steganography is hidden writing or embedded writing and everything is for a purpose.... and if u ask me... steganography will be mostly used by terrorists as it would hide the data/message to keep themselves disguised from the watching eyes....

what do u think about terrorists using steganography noW?


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nice m8

thx alot


NOTE FROM MOD PACKET: these sorts of posts are not useful at all, if you want to say "thx alot" please also put in notes as to how the article helped out and/or why you liked it. Warning point added.

Steganography code example:

Steg Example

(You must link the crypto and math libraries to compile: gcc -Wall -lcrypto -lm steg.c -o steg)

Its trivial, but an example of what is possible. It takes an input file in .gif format, hides an SHA1 hash in it, then outputs to another gif.

Usage:

steg infile.gif outfile.gif message

Once you finish, check out the files:


Bob