outguess | Universal steganographic tool

outguess is a C library. outguess has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

2018-11-11 - Joao Eriberto Mota Filho eriberto@eriberto.pro.br,. fully based on OutGuess 0.2, by. 2001-02-12 - Niels Provos provos@citi.umich.edu. OutGuess is a universal steganographic tool that allows the insertion of hidden information into the redundant bits of data sources. The nature of the data source is irrelevant to the core of OutGuess. The program relies on data specific handlers that will extract redundant bits and write them back after modification. In this version the PNM and JPEG image formats are supported. In the next paragraphs, images will be used as concrete example of data objects, though OutGuess can use any kind of data, as long as a handler is provided. OutGuess is available under the BSD software license. It is completely free for any use including commercial. Please see each source file for its respective license. OutGuess was developed in Germany. Steganography is the art and science of hiding that communication is happening. Classical steganography systems depend on keeping the encoding system secret, but modern steganography are detectable only if secret information is known, e.g. a secret key. Because of their invasive nature steganography systems leave detectable traces within a medium's characteristics. This allows an eavesdropper to detect media that has been modified, revealing that secret communication is taking place. Although the secrecy of the information is not degraded, its hidden nature is revealed, defeating the main purpose of Steganography. For JPEG images, OutGuess preserves statistics based on frequency counts. As a result, no known statistical test is able to detect the presence of steganographic content. Before embedding data into an image, the OutGuess system can determine the maximum message size that can be hidden while still being able to maintain statistics based on frequency counts. OutGuess uses a generic iterator object to select which bits in the data should be modified. A seed can be used to modify the behavior of the iterator. It is embedded in the data along with the rest of the message. By altering the seed, OutGuess tries to find a sequence of bits that minimizes the number of changes in the data that have to be made.