A Warsaw-based security researcher says the packets that Skype sends during silence can be used to carry secret messages in a conversation. When participants in a call are speaking, Skype sends the audio in 130-byte packets, while during silence it sends 70-byte packets. According to New Scientist, Wojciech Mazurczyk of Warsaw …

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Wednesday 9th January 2013 04:10 GMT Frumious Bandersnatch

TIMTOWTDI (ENOC)

There Is More Than One Way To Do It (encoding "nothing", of course)

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Wednesday 9th January 2013 04:10 GMT Tony Proudlove

That's easy for you to say

Are the names of the researchers also encrypted?

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Wednesday 9th January 2013 06:50 GMT Ole Juul

encrypted silence?

The idea of encrypting silence so it is impossible to detect is not new. TV and AM radio have been using this technique for years.

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Wednesday 9th January 2013 07:02 GMT mIRCat

Now you see me, now you..

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Wednesday 9th January 2013 09:24 GMT Anonymous Coward

Here's an example

Decrypt of the above:- silence rulez lol

No icon, cos that's encrypted too

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Wednesday 9th January 2013 10:05 GMT JaitcH

The Answer: Silent Circle

Let them have a go a the latest Phil Zimmerman project. Keys, on the server, self-destruct in 24-hours. And no logging.

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Wednesday 9th January 2013 10:12 GMT M7S

"You have the right to remain silent..."

....but failure to provide the decryption keys to your silence will result in an automatic sentence under a future provsion of RIPA.

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Wednesday 9th January 2013 10:48 GMT hugo tyson

Sound steganography

...is still steganography, no chance for a neologism here ;-(

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1. Wednesday 9th January 2013 16:01 GMT Mike Moyle
  
  Re: Sound steganography
  
  "Sound steganography ...is still steganography, no chance for a neologism here ;-("
  
  "Sonic Inscrutabledriver"?
  
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