How to hide secret data or messages inside a picture using Steganography trick

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September 27, 2020 March 18, 2022

Hello guys Have you wondered you can fit your images, text files, videos, secret codes inside of image, yes its possible that process which is used to do this is known as steganography

Steganography is used to encrypt the files inside of a image file like a spy in disguise, by this method you can send your secret codes, images, videos, audios, document to other person in a group who you wish to send without getting attention of other people in the group.

The steganography method can be used in android with easy method and you can also send it to other person.

Requirements:

Image file(of your choice)

Secret file(of your choice)

Andosbox App(Click here to download)

Es file Explorer(Click here to download) or Rar App(Click here to download)

Method:

Installation of Required App:

Download and install Andosbox App(Click here to download)

Converting Image into Zip:

Compress the secret file using your file browser or RAR App and after the compression is completed, Rename zip file to a simple name which you can remember.

Go to your file explorer and create a folder Joy, place the image you want to perform stegonagrphy process and the compressed zip file.

Andoxbox Process:

Open andosbox apk and click on three dots iin the bottom of the screen and select the resize option to resize the screen.

After opening you will get command line interface,type the following the commands press enter after every command.
cd "your folder name"

Example :
cd Joy

Here Joy is the folder name you created.

copy /b "your image file with file extension" + "your zip file with file extension" "output file name with extension of image file"

Example:
copy /b sun.jpg + data.zip output.jpg

Here sun.jpg is the image file which you want to stegnograph and png is the file extension

data.zip is the secret file you created in step 2 with file extension.

output.jpg is the file which will be created inside the stego folder and it will be a image file.

You can rename the output file name to your desired name but dont change the file extension let be as image file.

Now you can send this image file to your secret friend and other people will not know about it.

Decode the image:

To get the files hidden files back, just follow these step.

Open the Es file explorer and select the output.jpg file and click on more and select open as option, Click on other and select Rar option.

In Rar, You will get all the files back, Select all the files and click on extract button ↥ and the secret files will be back.

Tip: While compressing create a password which only you and your partner will know and this way you can also add some security and password should be random characters with letters,numbers or special numbers, dont create password with numbers as it can be crackable.

For understanding this tutorial, I have added the video below that will help you in understand the process easily.