Blogging Tips And Tricks: Hide data behind the image

Hide data behind the image -

Steganography

by:Navprabhat Singh

I think u work a lot to hide your data from your friend and parents,like your girl friend pictures and more over.U can do it via many ways.I am gonna show u how to hide data behind the image the image this process is called Steganography.

To Hide a text file behind a text file (Part 1)

To Encrypt a flash drive (Part 2)

Steps to hide your data behind image are as follows:

1. Create a folder anywhere in your computer.Now select the Data you want to hide,cut it and paste in your folder.

2.Now select a image in which you want to hide the data.

3.In the given image test1 and test2 is a text file and a nav.jpg is a image file behind which i hide my data.

4.Now select the data and Right click on that,u will see the option "add to archive" ,Click on that.

5.Now u will see a new folder "test" which is a compressed folder ,

remember the extension of a file either it's a rar file or zip file.

6.Open the CMD console by typing "cmd" on the run option.

7.Then go to the directory where u have created the folder,like i have created a folder in C drive named as "test",so i will type the following command....

cd/

now i m in C drive where i have created the folder if u have created in D drive then after typing cd/ type d: and press enter.

8.After that go to your folder by typing the command ....

cd test

9.Now type the following command to hide your data.

"copy /b nav.jpg + test.rar hide.jpg"

10.Here nav is a image and test.rar is a compressed data which i want to hide.

11.U can see the following response that one file is copied.Now open your folder and u can see that there will be a file named hide which contain your data hidden in it.

12.Now delete rest of the data except hide.

13.It's over guys now "hide" is a file which contain your data hidden in it.whenever some one click on that he will be able to see your image not the data.