Surprise!
At least the preliminary data is showing it is still not common. The killer fact of the piece is they say "there are [around] 600 to 800 programs that do stenography". Interesting the data on this number indicates a serious piece of missing research. How were the programs identified? Is there a list? It would be interesting to see that list.
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Greetings,
They are using Backbone Security's products, and probably the Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB). According to Backbone's web site, the database contains 625 signatures. You can buy the database for $250 and it is compatible with FTK, Encase, etc.
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-David
There is a lot of research at Purdue, and a great bunch of people in the Department. If you ever have a chance to talk to Dr. Rogers he is a very interesting guy. Tim Wedge and Sean Leshney can be very helpful for folks in LE. In addition to steg there is quite a bit of research on small scale digital devices (in fact an entire lab area) and several in-house software projects.
Interesting, I was born just across the river from Purdue in the last century.
Are there Open Source apps for Steago analysis?
They may be hot on Forensics but their web page needs work.
try any pdf document on
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oops.. all the docs have this code.
<a href="" target="_blank"><strong>940.72 kb</strong></a>
My favorite is the "Greeking" that is left on that same page. Perhaps they need to get some creative types from IU to help with their web design.
Although there are plenty of Open Source tools to create steganography, I have yet to find any to analyze it.