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Re:“Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by co... by code_duck on Saturday January 26, 2019 @03:46PM (#19008391)
I’m not saying that the message isn’t secure in an encryption sense. It’s just that embedding it in an image has no advantage in an encryption sense, and if the advantage is not secrecy about the presence of a message at all, what is it?

Sure, stegonagraphy has a capacity for information that based on the image format utilized. But the real upper capacity is dependent upon the other layers.

The way to make it user friendly is to make it transparent. I don’t see how this would do that.

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Re:“Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by co... by nobody271 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:00PM (#19008464)
Speaking of layers that's how I want to answer the first part. Encryption makes it secure but steganography makes it portable. Steganography is the sugar that makes the medicine go down. That's how I think it could work anyways, I'm not saying that is what would happen.
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