Steghide is a steganography program that is able to hide data in various kinds of image- and audio-files. The color- respectivly sample-frequencies are not changed thus making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests.
Steghide is a steganography program that is able to hide data in various kinds of image- and audio-files. The color- respectivly sample-frequencies are not changed thus making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests.
guix package -i steghide
An interesting way to hide a key, is to use a JPG image to store the key. Here’s how-to do that:
We need a JPG image; I copied one from my Pictures folder to tomb_test:
$ cp ~/Pictures/Some.jpg .
$ ls
secret.tomb secret.tomb.key Some.jpg
To embed the key in the JPG (this will prompt you for a passphrase which should be different from the one you used to secure the key):
$ steghide embed -cf Some.jpg -ef secret.tomb.key
Enter passphrase:
Re-Enter passphrase:
embedding "secret.tomb.key" in "Some.jpg"... done
You can now delete your key with:
rm secret.tomb.key
To retrieve the key file:
$ steghide extract -sf Some.jpg
Enter passphrase:
wrote extracted data to "secret.tomb.key".
Bonus: To get determine whether a file has a key:
$ steghide info Some.jpg
"Some.jpg":
format: jpeg
capacity: 25.1 KB
Try to get information about embedded data ? (y/n) y
Enter passphrase:
embedded file "secret.tomb.key":
size: 859.0 Byte
encrypted: rijndael-128, cbc
compressed: yes
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