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Steganography

Steganography is the hiding of messages within other files like images or audio to conceal the message's existence. The document demonstrates how to use the Windows command prompt to hide a text file within an image file, making two files that look identical but have slightly different file sizes, with the hidden text viewable by opening the image file in Notepad. This technique embeds messages secretly within other files without arousing suspicion.

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Steganography

Steganography is the hiding of messages within other files like images or audio to conceal the message's existence. The document demonstrates how to use the Windows command prompt to hide a text file within an image file, making two files that look identical but have slightly different file sizes, with the hidden text viewable by opening the image file in Notepad. This technique embeds messages secretly within other files without arousing suspicion.

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Steganography

Steganography is the art of hiding information by embedding messages within other seemingly harmless messages. The hidden information can be text, images or so. Consider the following 2 images:

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Though the two images are identical, but there sizes differ. The difference arises as the second image has a hidden text file attached to it. Lets see how you can do it by using Windows Command Prompt. Using CMD 1. Go to Start->Run->cmd 2. Go the directory where the image and text file to be attached are saved. 3. Write the command : copy /b pic.jpg + file.txt pic1.jpg

4. Open the folder. Youll find another file pic1.jpg in the folder. If you open the image with any photo viewer, you wont be able to know that any hidden information is bound to it. However, if you open pic1.jpg with notepad, youll see the following data.

Youll find that the text at the end of the file is the one which forms a part of file.txt. Your data is hidden!

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