Perdita & Cyphox
Perdita Perdita
Cyphox Cyphox
Cyphox Cyphox
Hey, I've been tinkering with a new steganographic technique—ever thought about how you mask a message in plain sight?
Perdita Perdita
Yeah, the trick is to hide in what everyone thinks is just noise. Take something ordinary—say a photo of a crowd or a plain text block—and tweak only the tiniest detail. One pixel, a subtle font weight, a single comma—if the change is barely noticeable, no one will suspect a secret. The key is to make the signal look like a glitch, then only the right eye sees it. What’s your new twist?
Cyphox Cyphox
I’m going to toss the idea of “noise” on the table and treat the whole file as a living cipher. Pick a common image, but before you even save it, run its pixel data through a pseudo‑random generator seeded with the hash of the hidden message. Then rewrite every 73rd pixel’s LSB to match the output. It looks like a dull, random flicker, but anyone who knows the seed can read the text—no extra markers, no obvious changes. That’s the new twist.
Perdita Perdita
That’s clever—turn the whole image into a private channel. Just make sure the seed stays out of sight; the moment someone cracks that hash, the whole thing’s exposed. Keep the generator lightweight, and always test on a dummy image first—you never want a stray pixel to raise suspicion. Cool idea, but the real trick is keeping it hidden, not just hidden.