./security/snow, Whitespace steganography program

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Branch: pkgsrc-2012Q1, Version: 20060213, Package name: snow-20060213, Maintainer: agc

Whitespace steganography

The program snow is used to conceal messages in ASCII text by
appending whitespace to the end of lines. Because spaces and tabs are
generally not visible in text viewers, the message is effectively
hidden from casual observers. And if the built-in encryption is used,
the message cannot be read even if it is detected.

What's in a name?

snow exploits the steganographic nature of whitespace. Locating
trailing whitespace in text is like finding a polar bear in a
snowstorm (which, by the way, explains the logo). And it uses the ICE
encryption algorithm, so the name is thematically consistent.

Master sites:

SHA1: 36bab642862630761a98a48d35b1582548272758
RMD160: b3fe3a274f1f10411eb948d1662907627c2b76c2
Filesize: 11.898 KB

Version history: (Expand)