Steganography
DRIVECRYPT uses advanced steganography
to hide your confidential information into music files.
Steganography is the art and science of communicating
in a way which hides the existence of the communication.
In contrast to cryptography, where the "enemy"
is allowed to detect, intercept and modify messages
without being able to violate certain security premises
guaranteed by a cryptosystem, the goal of steganography
is to hide messages inside other "harmless"
messages in a way that does not allow any "enemy"
to even detect that there is a second secret message
present. Steganography is in the (especially military)
literature also referred to as transmission security
or short TRANSEC.
A good steganography system should fulfil the same
requirements posed by the "Kerckhoff principle"
in cryptography. This means that the security of the
system has to be based on the assumption that the "enemy"
has full knowledge of the design and implementation
details of the steganographic system. The only missing
information for the "enemy" is a short easily
exchangeable random number sequence, the secret key,
and without the secret key, the "enemy" should
not have the slightest chance of even becoming suspicious
that on an observed communication channel hidden communication
might take place.
DRIVECRYPT is able to hide entire
volumes in music files using advanced steganographic
techniques. There are a number of simple software tools
available for hiding files in the least significant
bits of digital images or for transforming PGP messages
into files resembling pure random byte sequences. However
usage of most of the currently available steganographic
tools might be quite easily detected using sufficiently
careful analysis of the transmitted data.
If you want to test DRIVECRYPT`s advanced
Steganography, please create a 16 bit, stereo audio
file. (An easy way to do this is by downloading the
program "WinDAC" from our Download Section.
This program allows you to transform any song from any
audio CD to a Steganographic-suitable wav file).
Then tell DRIVECRYPT to create an encrypted
disk in the music file (by choosing the option "Use
Cryptographic Functionalities" on the disk creation
wizard.
The resulting music (WAV) file, created by DRIVECRYPT,
will become a "virtual container" for the
storage of confidential data, just as if it were a normal
hard disk. For unauthorized users, however, the file
will appear to be just a simple music file.
DRIVECRYPT is the most powerful,
flexible and fast cryptographic program available on
the market today, bringing Military Strength Encryption
to your computer and protecting your data transparently
in a quick, reliable way.
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