X: Steganography

TOOLS LIST OF #OPTRAINING

 1 ) Xiao Steganography = Xiao Steganography is free software that can be used to hide secret files in BMP images or in WAV files. Use of the tool is easy. You can just open the software, load any BMP image or WAV file to its interface
download here = http://download.cnet.com/Xiao-Steganography/3000-2092_4-10541494.html

2 Image Steganography
Image Steganography is also a free software for hiding your information in image files. You can hide text message or files inside an image file. Just select the source file in which you want to hide the secret message
download here =  http://imagesteganography.codeplex.com/

3 Steghide = Steghide is an open source Steganography software that lets you hide your secret file in image or audio file
download here = http://sourceforge.net/projects/steghide/files/

4 Crypture
Crypture is another command line tool that performs Steganography. You can use this tool to hide your sensitive data inside a BMP image file. But there is one requirement. BMP file should be eight times larger than the data file which you want to hide inside the BMP file. If you have a small amount of data to hide, you can use this tool. This tool is very small and is only 6KB in size. It does not need any kind of installation.

Download this tool here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crypture/

5 SteganographX Plus

SteganographX Plus is another small tool that lets you hide your confidential data inside a BMP image. It also does not need any installation and is of only 496 KB in size. it is simple and offers easy to use interface. You can use this tool to hide your sensitive data inside a BMP file and recover your sensitive data from that file.

You can download this tool from here: http://www.bestfreewaredownload.com/freeware/t-free-steganographx-plus-freeware-yeipgmrk.html

rSteg

The rSteg is a Java based tool that lets you hide textual data inside an image. It has two buttons: one to encrypt and second to decrypt the text. Just select the image file, enter the PIN, and then enter the text which you want to hide in the image. It will generate a target image file with hidden text inside. If you want to read that text again, use this tool and select decrypt option.

Download this tool here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/rSteg.shtml

SSuite Picsel

SSuite Picsel is a free portable application to hide text inside image file. However, it has a different approach. It uses image file as a key to protect your hidden text inside an image. Don’t be confused. Actually, this tool can hide text inside an image file. Nevertheless, to hide and unhide text inside an image, you need to enter another image as a key. To hide a text inside the image, select image in which you want to hide the text and select another image for key. Now you can hide your text inside the first image. To unhide you text, you need to enter the key image.

Download this tool: http://www.ssuitesoft.com/ssuitepicselsecurity.htm

Our Secret

Our Secret is another similar kind of tool that is used to hide sensitive information in a file. Interface of the tool is divided into two parts. One part is to hide the data in a file and other part is to unhide. You need to select the carrier file in which you want to hide your data. Then select the data or file which you want to hide. Enter the password to encrypt your message and then hide the data in the file. Use the same tool again to unhide the data from the file you created with hidden data.

Download this tool here: http://download.cnet.com/Our-Secret/3000-2144_4-75553911.html

Camouflage

Camouflage is also a nice steganography tool that lets you hide any type of file inside of file. There is no kind of restriction in the software for hiding the file. Use of the tool is also simple and easy. You can just right click on any file and select the option of Camouflage. To extract your sensitive data from the file, right click and select Uncamouflage. You can also set password to encrypt the hidden data inside the file.

Now the project is no longer in development. But you can use the old file for your work. It still performs well and you can use it to hide your confidential data inside an image.

Download this tool: http://camouflage.unfiction.com/Download.html

OpenStego

If you are searching for a steganography tool, OpenStego is another good option. You can attach any kind of secret message file in an image file. You can hide images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG and WBMP. You can hide data in these files and take output as PNG file. The same software will be used to unhide data from the output file. It also use password to encrypt your data along with hiding inside the image file. This tool is open source and developed on Java.

Download this file: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openstego/files/

SteganPEG

SteganPEG lets you hide any kind of file into a JPG image file. You can attach any file and give password to hide inside a JPG File. Only SteganPEG can extract your file from that output JPG image. Output file will act like ordinary image file and one cannot tell that the image was modified just by looking into it. Interface of the software is simple with fewer options. So, one can easily use this tool to hide data into a JPG image file

Download this tool here: http://download.cnet.com/SteganPEG/3000-2193_4-75914262.html

Hide’N’Send

Hide’N’Send is also a small utility which offers steganography feature. It lets you hide any kind of file behind a JPG image file. It supports hashing and encryption too. Therefore, you can hide your date by encrypting. This adds an extra layer of security. Interface of the tool is simple and offers two tabs –one to hide data and other to extract data. You can select the options accordingly. Just run the tool, select the image file, then select the file which you want to hide, select the encryption type and then hide the data the image. Use the same tool again to extract the hidden information in the image.

Download this tool: http://download.cnet.com/Hide-N-Send/3000-2092_4-75728348.html


Steganography is an effective way of secure communication. You can first encrypt a confidential file and then hide it inside an image of other kind of file before sending it to some other. It will decrease the chance of being intercept. If you just send the file by encrypting, attacker will try to decrypt it by various ways. However, if he will only find a normal image file, he will have no clue. This technique is very easy to use but very difficult to detect. So, it can be used by government organizations to use as the way to send and receive files securely.