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From the README: Q. Can someone detect that a file has messages encoded in it? A. That depends on the encoding used and the properties of the file the data is
by infinity0 13y ago
From the README:
Q. Can someone detect that a file has messages encoded in it?
A. That depends on the encoding used and the properties of the file the data is being encoded in. There's a whole field of academic literature on steganography, none of which is invalidated by this code. What this code does is vastly simplify the implementation of new steganographic techniques, and allow a universal decoder and encoding of multiple messages to different keys in the same file.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoThe README should read: Q. Can someone detect that a file has messages encoded in it? A. If the file was generated with an encoder whose code is public (i.e. Github, bitbucket, ...) then yes. Always. And even if the code is private, it may not be secure. Unless you come up with an encoding scheme that's never been thought of before, then law enforcement will likely be able to detect the encoded messages unless they're trivially short.
- zzzeek 13y agorandom peanut gallery thought....mentioning "law enforcement" in the README itself might open up the tool itself to legal attacks, no ?
- nl 13y agoNo
- TheLoneWolfling 13y agoYou're assuming that there isn't a shared secret between the sender and reciever.
- eliteraspberrie 13y agoI have been working on a new steganography algorithm that I believe is secure. I plan to make it open source in the new year. Would you like to review the design and code when it is released?