Use the Internet to find research 3 steganography tools. Write an paragraph two

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Use the Internet to find research 3 steganography tools. Write an paragraph two of each of the 3 tools do along with their features. In addition, create a spreadsheet listing the 3 stenography tools. The spreadsheet should have the following 5 columns: name of tool, vendor, cost, file formats of data that can be hidden and the name of the vendor's Website. You work for a company known for its inventions that does a lot of copyright and patent work. You're investigating an employee suspected of selling and distributing drawings created for your company. During your investigation, you find several files with the unfamiliar extension .xde. Perform an internet investigation of this file extension and report on your findings. How can you identify an unknown graphics file format that your digital forensics tools don't recognize?

Explanation / Answer

Xiao Steganography

Xiao Steganography is free software that can be used to hide secret files in BMP images or in WAV files. It supports encryption with RC4, Triple DES, DES, Triple DES 112, RC2 and hashing SHA, MD4, MD2, MD5. It uses password to encrypt data along with image hiding .Requires the same software for decrypting .

OpenStego

OpenStego is a free software that allows any kind of secret message file to be hidden in images of BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG and WBMP types and output as PNG file. The same software will be used to unhide data from the output file. It also uses password to encrypt data along with image hiding . Requires the same software for decrypting .

http://www.openstego.com/

StegoStick

StegoStick is open source and conceals all sort of file in JPG , BMP , GIF , WAV , AVI and others . The encryption methods allowed are DES , Triple DES , RSA or default . On hiding it offers "Steg" and identical extension of the quilt file . Requires the same software for decrypting .

All the above can be downloaded free from any of the free software download website liike cnet , softpedia , sourceforge etc.

Name of tool Vendor Cost File formats that can be hidden Vendor website Openstego Openstego Free All types http://www.openstego.com/ Xiao Steganography Nakasoft Free All types Not present StegoStick Individual Developers Free All types Not present

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