TheSoup05 t1_jbc41ks wrote
Reply to comment by greenappletree in A group of researchers has achieved a breakthrough in secure communications by developing an algorithm that conceals sensitive information so effectively that it is impossible to detect that anything has been hidden by thebelsnickle1991
That’s usually what you’d do. Typically steganography isn’t your only form of security. You’d encrypt it first, then encode it. And even if you can detect that there is a hidden message encoded in some file, that doesn’t mean you actually know how to extract it even if it’s not encrypted.
The steganography is really just there to try and avoid having people know you have something worth encrypting so that they aren’t trying to figure out what it is in the first place.
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