Word List Steganography from 1995 is far more secure than modern PGP

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John Walker, legendary creator of AutoDesk, wrote a tiny piece of software that embeds a message into a jpeg file. The message that accompanies the image is the decryption key.
In my last post, I established that PGP is vulnerable to Rubber Hose Decryption. How is decryption possible if no one knows you have received a secret message?
Children make a lot of noise but know so little. You'll learn to be quieter when you grow up.
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The PC version is gone. It was on fourmilab as source code. It was written in Portable C, and finding a compiler is probably too hard.
I had an Amiga back then.
You'll need WinUAE Amiga emulator to run it. FS-UAE Amiga Emulator for people running *NIX systems.
It's even more secure than it used to be.
 

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