Steganography
Security and privacy
steganography
SHOW HN2012
54points
15comments
#433of 1,677 in 2012
Top 26%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
3 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool demo and an interesting idea for hiding passwords in plain sight
From 2 comments
I wrote an essay/slides a while back which may be of interest to people wanting to know a bit more about basic steganographic image creation and detection:…
atmz on HNActually a really cool way of storing passwords in plain sight. EDIT: Though if you were really secure, you shouldn't be typing your passwords into a third party website in…
liyanchang on HN
Objections
LSB steganography is trivially easy to detect and can be lost in JPEG compression
From 2 comments
I'm a bit drunk, so uh, yeah. LSB steganography is trivially easy to detect. Do not use LSB steganography. Steganography can be provably secure, with the correct amounts of plain…
DanBC on HNLSB steganography works on PNG (lossless compression). Saving it as a jpg file causes data to be lost.
poundy on HN
Needs a disclaimer about misuse, such as storing passwords in public photos
From 1 comment
I wrote an essay/slides a while back which may be of interest to people wanting to know a bit more about basic steganographic image creation and detection:…
atmz on HN
Alternatives named
OutGuess
From 1 comment
and detect those messages in plain sight. http://www.outguess.org/detection.php/
jnazario on HN
PixelJihad
From 1 comment
Interesting work. My own JS stego tool uses a similar technique, though I implemented encryption and message scattering as well: http://oakes.github.com/PixelJihad/
gw on HN
steganograph Ruby gem
From 1 comment
Nice. I implemented it in Ruby once https://github.com/yankov/steganograph
yankoff on HN