Steganosaurus (stego)
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* [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/stego.shar.gz Download mirror] | * [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/stego.shar.gz Download mirror] | ||
* [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/stego.txt.gz Manual] ([https://web.archive.org/web/19970606030845/http://www.fourmilab.ch/stego/ mirror]) | * [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/stego.txt.gz Manual] ([https://web.archive.org/web/19970606030845/http://www.fourmilab.ch/stego/ mirror]) | ||
| − | * [http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/PROGRAMS/STEGO2.ZIP OS/2 version] | + | * [http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/PROGRAMS/STEGO2.ZIP OS/2 version] ([https://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/emx/emx_v09d/index.html required EMX runtime]) |
Revision as of 20:33, 16 October 2023
Steganosaurus (stego) by John Walker is a DOS text steganography program.
It transforms any binary file into nonsense text based on a dictionary either given explicitly or built on the fly from a source document. The output of stego is nonsense, but statistically resembles text in the language of the dictionary supplied. Although a human reader will instantly recognise it as gibberish, statistical sampling employed by eavesdroppers to detect encrypted messages may consider it to be unremarkable.
