secret message hidden in an image
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Aug 13 16:32:24 EDT 2004
"Guyon Morée" <gumuz at NO_looze_SPAM.net> wrote in message
news:411cd06a$0$3888$4d4ebb8e at news.nl.uu.net...
> hi, i wrote a little script which can 'hide' a piece of text in an image
> using python and PIL
>
> i wrote about it on my blog, if you like to read it go to:
>
> http://gumuz.looze.net/blogger/2004/08/message-in-image.html
For those who don't know, this is called steganography. An interesting
challenge is to embed a message in a way that is both hard to detect and
that survives lossy compression, as with .jpgs.
Terry J. Reedy
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