Curtis Collicutt
Outcome Oriented Technologist, Sales Engineer, and Cybersecurity Expert
The Stegalographer Guidebook
They said never write your own encryption. They didn't say anything about steganography.
This guidebook covers Stegalographer, the tool, and steganography more broadly.
Stegalographer adds watermarks and attribution markers to log files. If your logs already flow through a pipeline, Stegalographer slots into that pipeline and encodes information you can verify later, without disrupting anything visible.
Most people think of steganography as hiding messages in images, but the same idea works anywhere you have controllable variation. Distributed infrastructure already produces massive volumes of logs and metrics with natural variation baked in. That variation is a surface you can write on.
The security world has spent decades on encryption and availability. Steganography solves a different problem: provenance and attribution. Who produced this data? Has it been tampered with? These questions matter most in democratic and institutional systems, and they are the ones encryption alone cannot answer.
72 pages ~15,000 words 8.5 x 11 PDF
About Curtis
Curtis is a technologist who works to make systems safer and easier to use. He adopts a socio-technical approach to complex challenges via human-centred solutions. Throughout his career, which has spanned work with university libraries, start-ups and enterprises, he has been a trusted advisor to customers and stakeholders. He is constantly learning and growing, and through organisations like TAICO, he helps others do the same.