HiddenGems

This project is open-source. Feel free to contribute!

What it is

This project aims to create a steganography utility written in rust. It encodes data to images in the png format (jpg has weird compression I don't understand that breaks pixels, I stuck to png)

The idea is that you encode text in an image's pixels. Consider the following simplification :

An image is a matrix of pixels, each pixel has a number representing the color of the pixel. consider our 10x10 canvas :

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Each pixel in this canvas will be simplified as black or white. Each color in a computer is represented by a set of numbers called RGB (Red, Green, Blue). a RGB value would