How to Hide Data in Image, Audio & Video Files: Steganography

How to Hide Data in Image, Audio & Video Files: Steganography

Ever wondered to know how to hide secret messages in images, audio and video files? Well, in this post I will take you through a concept called steganography using which, it is possible to hide your secret information in image files, songs or any other file of your choice. At the end of this post, you can also download free stegnographic tools and start hiding your data.

What is Steganography?

Steganography is a means of obscuring data where secret messages are hidden inside computer files such as images, sound files, videos and even executable files so that, no one except the sender and the receiver will suspect the existence of stealth information in it. Steganography may also involve the usage of cryptography where the message is first encrypted before it is concealed in another file. Generally, the messages appear to be something else such as an image, sound or video so that the transfer of secret data remains unsuspected.

How to Use Stego Magic?

Suppose you want to hide a text message inside a JPG file:

1. Place the JPG and the text file (.txt) in the same folder as that of StegoMagic_TXT.exe

2. Run StegoMagic_TXT.exe and follow the screen instructions to embed the text message inside the JPG image.

3. Note down the secret decryption key.

Now you can send this image to your friend via email. To decrypt the hidden message, your friend should load this JPG file onto the Stego Magic tool and use the secret decryption key.

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HOW TO HIDE A FILE BEHIND AN IMAGE?

 12:21  Manz  No comments

Every one need to hide some thing from others, that may be An image, a text or sometimes a video ;) ....
Often we use some software to do this task..

What if we can do this without any software..
It's a quite simple and risk-less trick..
You don't need any additional software for this...

First u need to open command prompt..

It's very simple, every one can do this.... :P

1. Press windows key+R     And type "cmd"  without quotes and Press enter...
2. It will open command prompt.. In that, type
                      "cd desktop"     without quotes
           cd is a command to change the current directory..

3. Compress the file you have to hide as  .rar  using winrar...
4. Place Both the image and the file in desktop....

5. As You can see My file to hide is named as  "file"  and the image as "image"..  You can use any name..
6. Now in command prompt, Type     "copy /b imagename.jpg+filename.rar finalname.jpg"

   Here "imagename.jpg" refers to the name of your image, in my case its "image.jpg"
   "Filename.rar"    means the name of your file to be hidden..  its "file.rar" for me
   "Finalname.jpg" means the final name of the image[ in which our file is hidden],..  it's "newimage.jpg" for me...

           so i will be using this command  to do this
                 
                     "copy /b image.jpg+file.rar newimage.jpg"       without quotes

           change it according as your file and image name...   AND PRESS ENTER.

SEE the image below..

Now the file is copied to  "Newimage.jpg"  
If you directly open the image, you cannot see the file... so what will we do??

TO ACCESS THE FILE:--


It's very simple,.. Open the image with winrar, you can see your file inside the image,....
isn't that simple??????

See the screenshots...