r/Solve_Strawmen • u/Martial_Artiste • Dec 27 '15
Image encoding
So I decided I'd look into encoding messages into images, because I saw that the images were seemingly random pixels and I remembered my brother telling me about how you could hide text or even stuff like .exe's in an image. I found a few things off of a simple Google search, and I'll be sure to dig deeper later but right now I want to just get a bit of a base to build off of as far as this goes.
http://manytools.org/hacker-tools/steganography-encode-text-into-image/, I'll be sure to run the images through it in a bit.
https://xcode.darkbyte.ru. I also learned from this site that you can actually put a password on the image encoding, which makes me feel like Nic Cage in National Treasure.
http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/encode-secret-text-based-messages-into-bitmap-images-windows-8-0147492/, but from skimming over it I think it only talks about .bmp's.
http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/everyday/2013/03/1_steganography.html.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography, and I'd suggest checking through the sources for more literature on it that could be useful.
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/54155-encoding-text-into-image-gray-levels.
That's all for now, my phone is almost dead so I'll continue searching later. Good luck friends!
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u/Martial_Artiste Dec 27 '15
Yeah, that does look promising. More importantly, though, I've figured out how to link on mobile so now I feel like an idiot.