What Is Steganography?
Steganography is a covert communication techniquethat conceals information within seemingly harmless files or data to mask its existence.
Hiding in plain sight, amongst common files, the technique lets you transmit sensitive data without raising suspicion.
What Is the Steghide Tool?
Steghide is a tool you could use for steganography.
How to Use the steghide Command
The steghide command has many uses.
To get more information on steghide and its different options, typesteghidein your terminal and press enter.
The -ef secret.txt part specifies a data file that steghide will conceal.
The command will ask you to enter a passphrase twice.
Once youve done so, press enter and steghide will attach the secret message to the file.
You canview the contents of the text file using the cat commandor a text editor of your choice.
