Project 5-5: Steganography In this project you will use steganography to hide messages in image files.

Required for this project:

Windows Vista, 7, or 8

Obtain a copy of OpenStego, a steganography tool. You can obtain it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/openstego/.

Create a text file with a message to be hidden.

Start the OpenStego tool.

In the Message File field, select the text file created in step 2.

In the Cover File field, select an image file that you will use to hide the message.

In the Output Stego File field, select a file namethis will be a new image file that will visually resemble the original image selected in Step 5.

Click the Hide Data button.

View the new image file created in step 7. Can you discern any differences in the appearance of the file?

Extract the hidden message from the GIF file.image file; click the Extract Data button; select the image file created in step 7, and select a text output file. Click Extract Data. This will create a new text file with a message created in step 2.