From the course: Ethical Hacking: System Hacking
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Using whitespace steganography
From the course: Ethical Hacking: System Hacking
Using whitespace steganography
- [Instructor] There are several different types of steganography techniques. In this segment, we'll learn how using whitespace steganography can be used to conceal data. Whitespace is the part of the document that's either a space between characters or the area surrounding an object. So let's see how this works. I'm at this page and here we can see how using Unicode will be able to conceal characters within text. Now, I put a small amount of text over here, which would be the original text, and then down below, we have the hidden text, and then I select Encode. Now, down below here, we can see Download Stego Text as File, which I did. Now, let's take a look. I've opened it up in Notepad and here's the stego text. But let's take a look at the original. In this case, this is the original text. Within the stego text, you can see those lines and that represents the secret hidden message. Now, they may be overlooked by someone or even a computer system unless they're specifically checked.…
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