How to hide data in image and audio files

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Many times we need to hide our confidential files to protect privacy.However, hiding files is not that easy.There is a free software Steghide UI with which you can protect your important data by hiding them in image or audio files.

Steghide UI1 300x222 How to hide data in image and audio files

Steghide UI provides users option of simple and powerful Interface and you can embed data of BMP, JPG, WAV and AU and you will not be able to hide data of any other format.

Steghide has 16 different encryption algorithms (Arcfour, Blowfish, Cast-128, Cast-256, DES, Enigma, Gost, Loki97, Rc2, AES 256/128/192, Saferplus, Serpent, TripleDES, Twofish, Wake and Xtea).The default encryption algorithm is Rijndael 128.

You can maintain the size of the resulting file between accepted parameters by defining the compression level. This will have an influence on the total embedding and extracting process, and the resulting file will be smaller which will be easy to maintain.

Steghide UI has elegant user friendly interface.

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19 Responses to “How to hide data in image and audio files”
  1. sureshpeters

    thosuand likes ;) :)
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  2. ecardlr

    This is a great way of securing very important documents and files in our computer specially if the computer is a multi user one

  3. iPhone Development

    This is a very useful tip when one has to save private files.

  4. Sathish @ TechieMania

    Hi Shab, Thanks for sharing useful tool. I have used some other method to hide my data’s but sometimes it haven’t worked for me. Hope this tool, will solve my problem
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  5. lawmacs

    Brilliant this tool can help hide files from your kids if you don’t want them to see certain things looks good Shabnam
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  6. Aswani

    looks quite useful. thanks so much for sharing this info here. Keep blogging..cheers !!
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  7. Fareed khan

    cool info, this is useful tool…thank you for sharing
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  8. Murali

    Good , i have developed the similar type of s/w using JAVA in net beans . This process is called “stenography”
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    • shabnam sultan

      Yes Murali steganography is a nice

  9. Nicola

    You have always useful tools Shabnam. thanks for sharing this info. Keep working :D

  10. provamsi

    That’s our final year engineering project in 2008. Now, its become a software. Cool.
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    • shabnam sultan

      Thanks for your comment Vamsi, good to know that it was your project.

  11. Hardik

    Hey Shubnam nice information.Thanx

  12. Hardik

    I think some people are mistaking.This is called “steganography” not stenography.Stenography is writing in short way.

    • shabnam sultan

      :P

  13. Avi Singh

    Nice share Shabnam….
    quite useful software ……
    Is there any way to hide data in an image without any software?
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  14. ashwin

    presently i am using MS locker. but hiding data in image file..seems interesting. will give a try to this software. thanks for the share.
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  15. TechChunks

    Wow! That sounds so geeky ;)

    Thanks for sharing :)
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  16. Cosimo Oliboni

    If you’re insterested in steganography, read extensive tech-info at
    - http://members.fortunecity.it/blackvisionit/OpenPuff_Steganography_Home.html
    try also OpenPuff (professional freeware stego-sw)

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