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| author | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2022-10-30 02:00:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2022-10-30 02:00:19 +0100 |
| commit | 54a31641fd73ee43ad468406a2d5a28395b87a44 (patch) | |
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gnu: steghide: Temper expectation.
* gnu/packages/image.scm (steghide)[synopsis, description]: Make clear
that it's two steps above rot13 on the srs bzns cryptography scale.
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/image.scm | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/image.scm b/gnu/packages/image.scm index cfd65c8bfa..f6ee6c8ead 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/image.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/image.scm @@ -1535,11 +1535,16 @@ differences in file encoding, image quality, and other small variations.") (inputs (list libjpeg-turbo libmhash libmcrypt zlib)) (home-page "http://steghide.sourceforge.net") - (synopsis "Image and audio steganography") + (synopsis "`Hide' (nonconfidential) data in image or audio files") (description - "Steghide is a program to hide data in various kinds of image and audio -files (known as @dfn{steganography}). Neither color nor sample frequencies are -changed, making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests.") + "Steghide is a program to `hide' data in various kinds of image and audio +files. This practice is known as @dfn{steganography}, but the method used by +steghide is not very secure and should not be used where security is at stake. +Even if a password is used, steghide offers little plausible deniability. + +Nonetheless, neither color nor sample frequencies are changed, making the +embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests not aimed +specifically at this tool.") (license license:gpl2+))) (define-public optipng |