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Rumors of Steganography from an India Investigator
by Elonka at 2:45 pm EDT, Aug 5, 2003

] Fadia says there have been unconfirmed reports that
] intelligence agencies had recruited cyber saboteurs from
] the annual DEFCON hackers conference in Las Vegas.
]
] Fadia says he has worked for a non-Indian intelligence
] agency, helping to break algorithms used to encrypt data
] suspected to belong to a terrorist group. The data was
] hidden in an image using steganography and encrypted
] three times using three customised algorithms.

Oh?

] But Fadia does not impress everyone, particularly
] hardcore security and cryptography enthusiasts. Some
] seasoned techies in India dismiss him as just another
] fad.

I'd be very interested to learn what this "non-India intelligence agency" is, since this is the first I've heard of this "data suspected to belong to a terrorist group". Which group? What data? Which agency? Or did this Fadia guy just come up with a line that sounded good on his resume, but without anything to back it up?

RE: Rumors of Steganography from an India Investigator
by Decius at 9:49 pm EDT, Aug 5, 2003

Elonka wrote:
] I'd be very interested to learn what this "non-India
] intelligence agency" is, since this is the first I've heard of
] this "data suspected to belong to a terrorist group". Which
] group? What data? Which agency? Or did this Fadia guy just
] come up with a line that sounded good on his resume, but
] without anything to back it up?

I'm going to shoot from the hip and say the latter. Third World terrorist groups usually don't have "custom" encryption systems that work. Number theory is a profession that seeks chalk and tweed more then caves and martyrdom.