> It's not easy to deny. Normal compilers flat out don't produce binaries that look like this, so if a binary looks like this then you definitely know something fishy is going on even if you can't decrypt it.
Yes, you're right. I've updated the post to include a note at the bottom saying that this technique is difficult to provide deniability with.
> Contrast with steganography in least significant image bits; you genuinely cannot determine at all if an image is carrying hidden encrypted data. That's what easy to deny looks like.
This might be a misunderstanding on my part, but I thought that LSB-style steganography had been broken by both statistical analyses and ML models for a while now[1]. But it's possible that these methods only work on plaintext messages; I haven't looked deeply into it.