By TsatsikiMiss cucumber is right, there were interesting papers in the ACM workshop on Multimedia and Security. And the participants had some fun as well. This is mainly thanks to one guy: Scoot Craver, the co-chair of the conference.
Scott is born data-hider, let me tell you why.
Firstly, when the participants arrived to register, they were offered a nice usb key like this one:
- these were the two first hidden messages. (look at it upside down)
Secondly, Scoot launched the workshop saying that there was a hidden (and cyphered) message on the building of the conference (the Friend Center in Princeton). This was true indeed since during the next coffee break the participants were able to see this:
- this was the second hidden message! Did Scoot add the bricks just for the conference? François Cayre, knowing ASCII code by heart, succeeded to decipher the message, while some others asked Google for the solutions.
Of course the talks of the workshop were also filled with hidden information (it was voluntary or not) and two of them were rather fun:
- the magic display cable (Atakli et al.) which is able to recognize, descramble and display encrypted images of a computer desktop on the fly,
- during the rump session, a teaser of the first contest on steganography was presented by T. Pevny. According to him it will be launch in 2010 and called BOSS (for Break Our Steganographic Scheme). I think that this contest is going to be rather popular.
Let's hope that WIFS 2009, the next conference on data-hiding, will be as fun as this one.
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