• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

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

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      13 hours ago

      If i understand correctly it is a message within a blank file. So it is not steganography, I suppose.

      At least I dont think a seemingly blank file would pass as a valid message.

      That’s what I think is defining for steganography is that it is deceptive because you might not assume another secret message is hidden within the original message.

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        11 hours ago

        The decoy container could be literally anything. Sure good steganography would be hidden in something that looks real, like a jpeg or a music file, because it gives it a reason for existing at a glance. That’s not to say it couldn’t be a blank plaintext file, it just might arouse more suspicions and be subjected to more scrutiny