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Steghide: An introduction

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 JOLT, a hacking CTF located in Little Rock, Arkansas. JOLT 2022 was where I first was introduced to steghide. Steghide is a tool associated with Steganography which according to wikipedia is: ""the practice of representing information within another message or physical object, in such a manner that the presence of the information is not evident to human inspection". So basically hiding information within a picture. And of course if you can hide information in there you can extract information, and hide information that is dangerous." On the kali linux steghide page it says: "Steghide is steganography program which hides bits of a data file in some of the least significant bits of another file in such a way that the existence of the data file is not visible and cannot be proven. Steghide is designed to be portable and configurable and features hiding data in bmp, jpeg, wav and au files, blowfish encryption, MD5 hashing of passphrases to blowfish keys, and pseud