[iwar] [fc:Steganography.used.by.terrorists]

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2002-03-02 06:21:47


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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 06:21:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [iwar] [fc:Steganography.used.by.terrorists]
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Suresh Ramasubramanaiam caused electrons to be transformed into alphanumeric characters 
on this mailing list as hereunder:

I was basically expressing doubts - and skepticism - as to whether Kashmiri militants 
are using stego, and whether this isn't yet another wild rumor / urban legend being 
floated around.

And now RVP respondeth as herunder:

Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda used to use crypto and stegano initially, but stopped 
using them in Aug 1998, just at the same time as Osama stopped using his phones. 
Al Qaida realized that an encrypted message stood out like a sore thumb in a flood 
of unencrypted messages, and drew attention to itself. Therefore they started using 
throwaway Hotmail and Yahoo accounts, and used plaintext code words, without any 
encryption whatsoever. But prior to Aug 1998, they used both crypto and stegano until 
some of their guys were caught in Algeria.

However, pan-Islamic groups such as Ikhwan al Muslimoon, Jamaat Islami, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, 
Khilafah, Izz al-Din Al-Kassam and Nida’ul Islam 
have been using strong encryption and steganography for the last few years. They 
trained groups operating in Kashmir such as Lashkar e Taiba, Hizbull Mujahideen, 
al Barq, etc. in crypto and stegano.


Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad

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