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Hide secret texts inside an image, optionally encrypt them with a password using AES-256.

IMGHIDE

Hide secret texts/messages inside an image. You can optionally encrypt your texts with a password using AES-256 before encoding into the image.

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Installation

You can install the all requirements from requirements.txt by using pip.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python imghide.py

Encode

• Choose Encode in the options menu

• Enter the image path (with extension)

• Enter the message to be hidden

• Choose a password to encrypt with AES-256 (optional)

The image is encoded and saved as a PNG file.

Decode

• Choose Decode from the menu

• Enter the path of the encoded image (with extension) and type in the password to decrypt (leave empty if no password was used)

The decoded text will be displayed on the terminal.