• billwashere@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    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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      21 hours ago

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

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        20 hours ago

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