[guardian-dev] Pixelknot: a new app

[Jacob Appelbaum]

Mark Belinsky:
> Hey Guardians,
> 
> This hacker union *needs your help*! The team has been working on an app
> experiment called Pixelknot. The idea is to create a steganography app on
> Android.
> 
> Before we go public with it, we'd love feedback from the trusted devs and
> users on this list. Whether it's about the graphics, user experience, code,
> security or just finding bugs, we need some smart minds on this. Right now,
> there are a lot of stego apps out there but we thought we might be able to
> do a better job. Hopefully we can.
> 
> Our goal is to make a stego app that:
>  
>    1. Has the original image appear, to the trained human eye, *unedited*.
>    2. Has the bytes of the image appear, to a trained analyst, *undistorted* so
>    much so as to arouse suspicion.
>    3. Has the complete message be *recoverable* no matter how it is
>    transmitted.
> 
> The good news is that we're well on our way to achieving this.
> 
> You can *download **latest APK* straight to your Android phone here -
> 
>    - https://bit.ly/pkfeb4
> 
> Or via qr code:
> [image: Inline image 1]
> 
> Here's the code if you want to dig into it:
> 
>    - https://github.com/guardianproject/PixelKnot
>    - https://github.com/harlo/F5Android port of the F5-steganography
>    library to android
> 
> Thanks so much! It's always exciting to launch a new experiment and we're
> happy to have you all along for the ride. Have a great weekend, internets!
> 
> All the Best,
> Mark
> 
> P.S. We know there are some bugs with the camera on the Galaxy S3 so sorry
> to those users. For everyone else, please get the app here
> https://bit.ly/pkfeb4
> P.P.S Thanks for keeping this quiet and not spreading it around on the
> social medias... for now.

Could you explain the stego design? Is it just F5? If so...


http://cs.marlboro.edu/term/spring06/programming_workshop/students/dgg/work/week_six.attachments/breaking_f5.pdf

Also, perhaps it might be a good time to mention Rachel Greenstadt's thesis:

   http://web.mit.edu/~greenie/Public/thesis.pdf

All the best,
Jake