5 Mar 2010

The Steganography game

The Steganography game

3 or more players:
1 player is transmitter
1 player is receiver
remaining players are intercepters

goal is for transmitter + receiver is to send an arbitrary sentence
from transmitter to receiver *using only the public sites on the
internet* while not having the message intercepted by the
intercepters.

suggested places to place messages: blog comments, social networks, twitter etc.

transmitter / receiver cannot make references to non-public shared
knowledge they have ("go to the url that is the same name of the girl
i dated in college")

it is ok to use shared knowledge if its inferable from information on
the internet ("go to the url that is the name of the person who first
formulated the law of gravity")

intercepters, unlike transmitter/receivers, are allowed to privately communicate

game begins by transmitter posting a comment to this blog post