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[–] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yeah I thought steganography was hiding messages in images.

Ok I just looked it up, apparently it can be anything. Images, audio, video, or even text.

I remember I had this Perl module once that would convert passwords into a binary string and then convert that string into spaces and tabs. Looked like a blank file. I guess that was technically steganography.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    No, that's encoding. If you hid that message inside another message, that would be steganography.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It is a message hidden in a message. The hidden message is the binary password, and the container message is "[blank]"

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    If i understand correctly it is a message within a blank file. So it is not steganography, I suppose.

    At least I dont think a seemingly blank file would pass as a valid message.

    That's what I think is defining for steganography is that it is deceptive because you might not assume another secret message is hidden within the original message.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    The decoy container could be literally anything. Sure good steganography would be hidden in something that looks real, like a jpeg or a music file, because it gives it a reason for existing at a glance. That's not to say it couldn't be a blank plaintext file, it just might arouse more suspicions and be subjected to more scrutiny

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