Bug 592406

Summary:	Maintainership request: app-crypt/outguess
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Rorvick <chris>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Proxy Maintainers <proxy-maint>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris Rorvick 2016-08-30 03:16:27 UTC

I'd be interested in maintaining this.  It was removed from Portage a *long* time ago due upstream not being responsive to a bug report:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143897

outguess is still used.  A couple of recent crypto challenges that require it for their solutions:

  https://potatopla.net/crypto/challenges/2/
  https://cyphercon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fakecoin.jpg

I'd be happy to look into the original issue with PPM files, though I have not tried reproducing yet.

Comment 1 Coacher 2016-08-30 05:21:30 UTC

Last outguess release was in 2001: https://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.wiretapped.net/pub/security/steganography/outguess/
Homepage is unavailable: http://www.outguess.org/
Homepage web-archive here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150419030527/http://www.outguess.org/

There's a more recent outguess-rebirth project: http://www.outguess-rebirth.com/
And tons of similar software: http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/tools.html

Comment 2 Chris Rorvick 2016-08-30 06:54:15 UTC

(In reply to Coacher from comment #1)
> There's a more recent outguess-rebirth project:
> http://www.outguess-rebirth.com/

Note that this project only appears to distribute binaries for Windows, and Firefox warns me the site has been reported for distributing possibly malicious software.

> And tons of similar software: http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/tools.html

Thanks, I'll take a look.  The OutGuess program in particular seems to be popular for crypto challenges but maybe something else is available on Gentoo that does compatible DCT-based steganography.

Comment 3 Chris Rorvick 2016-09-01 06:27:46 UTC

(In reply to Chris Rorvick from comment #0)
> I'd be happy to look into the original issue with PPM files, though I have
> not tried reproducing yet.

FWIW, I have a working ebuild including patch fixing bug 143897.

Comment 4 Michał Górny archtester

2017-08-05 16:03:53 UTC

We no longer use these bugs. See:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers/User_Guide#Taking_over_an_existing_package

Long story short:

1. If your request has been fulfilled already and you're the maintainer, ignore this.

2. If you have submitted the ebuilds separately, we'll handle it there. If that's via a bug, please make sure that proxy-maint@ is in CC. Feel free to ping us if things aren't moving forward for a long time.

3. If you haven't submitted anything yet, please submit a meaningful change to the package (bugfix, version bump, ebuild update...) along with the maintainer update and you'll become the maintainer when we merge it.

Sorry for the trouble.