White Noise Storm (WNSTORM)

File Format
Name	White Noise Storm (WNSTORM)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Encryption Steganography White Noise Storm (WNSTORM)
Released	1992

White Noise Storm (WNSTORM) by Ray (Arsen) Arachelian is a DOS encryption program with a proprietary algorithm. It also comes with the companion WNINJECT steganography program that hides files in PCX images.

Formats

• Encryption
• Encryption with no header (stealth option)
• Encryption with old method from v1.01
• Steganography in .pcx images

Further description of the various formats and the encryption method is included in the documentation and source code.

Identification

Encrypted files without the stealth option start with Hex "456E6372797074656420627920574E53544F524D2052656C20" ("EncryptedbyWNSTORMRel").

Files encrypted with the stealth option and steganography files don't have a header.

Links

• Download
• Message
• Download OS/2 version
• Review
• Performance analysis
• TrID definition: http://mark0.net/download/triddefs_xml.7z → w → wnstorm.trid.xml