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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2022-10-30 02:00:00 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2022-10-30 02:00:19 +0100
commit54a31641fd73ee43ad468406a2d5a28395b87a44 (patch)
tree229c9c9a4f5007a8d45fe9963ff468137ffa1085 /gnu/packages/image.scm
parent168b946acd7660e4bc9f647f39be8d5455a19fe2 (diff)
gnu: steghide: Temper expectation.
* gnu/packages/image.scm (steghide)[synopsis, description]: Make clear that it's two steps above rot13 on the srs bzns cryptography scale.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/image.scm b/gnu/packages/image.scm
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--- a/gnu/packages/image.scm
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@@ -1535,11 +1535,16 @@ differences in file encoding, image quality, and other small variations.")
(inputs
(list libjpeg-turbo libmhash libmcrypt zlib))
(home-page "http://steghide.sourceforge.net")
- (synopsis "Image and audio steganography")
+ (synopsis "`Hide' (nonconfidential) data in image or audio files")
(description
- "Steghide is a program to hide data in various kinds of image and audio
-files (known as @dfn{steganography}). Neither color nor sample frequencies are
-changed, making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests.")
+ "Steghide is a program to `hide' data in various kinds of image and audio
+files. This practice is known as @dfn{steganography}, but the method used by
+steghide is not very secure and should not be used where security is at stake.
+Even if a password is used, steghide offers little plausible deniability.
+
+Nonetheless, neither color nor sample frequencies are changed, making the
+embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests not aimed
+specifically at this tool.")
(license license:gpl2+)))
(define-public optipng