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Re:Why does Numbers hide a huge PNG file in exported Excel s... by DanBC on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @01:46PM (#8198717)
Randomness is something that cryptographers have spent a lot of time studying.

Introducing non-random data into a random data stream is easy to find unless you're very careful about the amounts of data-to-be-hidden and cover-data.

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Re:Why does Numbers hide a huge PNG file in exported Excel s... by MichaelGG on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @06:07PM (#8200084)
If you encrypt the data first, then you're inserting "random" data as far as analysis goes.
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