DeepSound
DeepSound hides files you want to keep private in standard audio files
This steganography utility is specifically
designed to store hidden files within audio tracks, and it only supports WAV
and FLAC files. If you don't mind these limitations, it's quite a good utility
you start by browsing the disk drive and selecting the audio file, which will
hold whatever you want to hide. Selecting an ordinary music track of about four
minutes provided nearly 12MB of storage space. You can then browse the disk
drive and select one or more files that you want to store in it. There's an
option to encrypt the files using 256-bit AES, and then a copy of the audio
file containing the encrypted hidden files is saved to disk.
An interesting feature of this type of
encryption is that you can write the audio files to a CD. It appears to be a
standard music disc that plays just like any other, but the tracks contain
hidden files. It's possible to extract the encrypted files from the CD whenever
you need it. To use this feature, separate CD-writing software is required and
it must not alter the audio tracks in any way, such as equalizing the volume,
because this would destroy the data.
Our Secret
This is a very simple utility compared to
OpenPuff, and perhaps it's called Our Secret because the author doesn't
actually tell you how it works! There are two sides to the software: on the
left you can hide files and on the right you can unhide them. Whether you're
hiding or un-hiding a file, you select a carrier, which is the file that stores
whatever you're hiding. It's not clear what file types are supported, but I
tried JPEGs and WAVs and they worked fine. It's possible that other types are
supported, so experiment with it. After selecting the carrier file, the
password is entered.
If you're hiding a file, you click Add and
choose a photo, text file or whatever you want to make invisible. There's an
option to display a text editor and to type in a message too, which could be
useful if you want to stored passwords or other information. Clicking 'Hide'
then saves a new version of the carrier file with the hidden content. If the
audio files are played or the photos viewed, you wouldn't know they contained
other files and messages. There is no information on whether the hidden files
or messages are encrypted and if they are, what type of encryption is used.
Without that knowledge, you don't know how secure it is, but even so, if
someone finds digital camera photos on your PC or in an email, they probably
wouldn't suspect that you're actually storing or sending secret files and
messages.
Our secret is very easy to use, and it is hides files or messages in photo
and music
SteganographX Plus
Load a BMP file, insert the text to be hidden and then encrypt it in
SteganographX Plus
SteganographX Plus is a very basic utility,
but it could be useful for hiding certain information. It only works with BMP
files, and after loading an image into the program, there's a box at the bottom
of the window to enter text. You could also copy it and paste it from another
program like Word, Notepad or a web page. Clicking 'Insert Text' inserts it
into the image. There's an option to encrypt the whole file, even the image
itself and afterwards it looks like random pixels of color. A thief or hacker
might then assume that the image was corrupt, but load the image back into the
program and you can decrypt it to restore the image and extract the text. It
isn't the most secure or flexible tool, but it's free, so try it.
This simple utility can hide one or more files within a BMP image like a
photograph
Xiao Steganography
Like Our Secret, there isn't much
information about Xiao Steganography, but it appears to hide files within BMP
and WAV files. When it's run, you're prompted to select the target file, which
is called the carrier in other steganography tools. You can then add one or
more files to this. As each one is added, the amount of space available is
displayed and only so much can be stored. There are then five encryption
algorithms and the usual suspects are in the line-up, such as DES, triple DES
and so on. There are four hashing algorithms to choose from too. This means
that whatever you hide is secure even if someone knows that the carrier file
contains secret information.
Step by Step With Anti Tracks
1. Start Anti Tracks and click the Data Concealing section on the left.
Click 'Hide Files and Folders'. Either drag files from an Explorer window or
click 'Browse' and select the file to hide.
2. After adding one or more files, click 'Next' and then tick the box
to encrypt them. There are several different encryption methods to choose from
and then you can enter a password.
3. On the next screen, you're prompted to select a container for the
files to be hidden. Click the button and then go to the Pictures library Select
a photo. The larger it is the better.
4. The photo is saved with a new name so you still have the original.
Open an Explorer window and double-click the original and the one with the
hidden files. Can you tell the difference?
