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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

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