🌆Steganography tools

1. Steghide

Steghide is a command line tool through which you can easily hide data in various kinds of image/audio files without loosing any quality of original file.

1.1 Installation

To install steghide run the following command

sudo apt install steghide

1.2 Usage

• In order to use the tool, first we need to create a secret message, secret.txt

• Now we need to download an image for us to hide the message in

• We can use this image

• We can use wget to download it and then change its name to image.jpg

• Now we can use steghide to embed the message in the image with embed and the switches cf to select the cover file (image.jpg) and ef to select the embed file (secret.txt)

• We can also provide a passphrase for further security

• we can extract it by using extract and the switch sf to select the stego file

2. Stegosuite

Stegosuite is a completely graphical user based tool (GUI tool). The functionality of stegosuite is completely similar to steghide, the only difference is the graphical version.

2.1 Installation

To install stegosuite run the following command

sudo apt install stegosuite

2.2 Usage

• After installation, type in stegosuite in the terminal to open the GUI

• We can load the image and type in our secret message and click on embed


• It will be saved as image_embed.jpg

• Open it again in stegosuite to extract and click on extract