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What problem does this solve?

• owencm 14y ago
  Encryption provides the ability to communicate without any intercepter being able to read the content. In many cases this is fine, but in some cases using encryption software is enough to incriminate you (e.g. spies). Hence steganography means that not only can your messages not be decoded, they can't be detected. Specifically, this extension's innovation is allowing steganography on walled gardens such as Facebook which recompress images after uploading them.
  • jpswade 14y ago
    I understand what steganography is, but what does this solve? Why would you want to send encrypted messages in a photo across facebook? It just seems really inefficient way of sending an encrypted message.
• 97-109-107 14y ago
  The way I answered the same question when developing a similar extension (http://umshade.it http://umshade.it) is that these proof-of-concept cryptography-related attempts might result in paving new paradigms for user-friendly flows for securing messages. If there were tools readily available for the layperson, maybe one would reconsider what they submit online (or so I hope)