steganoCode/README.md
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# steganoCode
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Steganography in source code
```
usage: stego.py [-h] [--input INPUT] [--output OUTPUT] [--stdin] [--stdout] [--hide] [--showSource] [--showFound]
[--lang LANG] [--message MESSAGE] [--comment COMMENT]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--input INPUT Input file
--output OUTPUT Output file
--stdin Read from stdin
--stdout Output to stdout
--hide Hide Mode
--showSource Show clean source
--showFound Show Matches
--lang LANG Programming Language
--message MESSAGE Hidden message
--comment COMMENT Comment
```
This tools encodes secret messages in a comment, which is appended at the start of the output
## Encoding
The message is first commuted from unicode to binary and then to a sequence of these two invisible unicode characters:
* `U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK` for binary digit `1`
* `U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK` fot binary digit `0`
The last char in the sequence is always ignored in decoding and is `U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK` (to restore the correct reading order that the previous char would impart)
A comment is created, accounting for the programming language and placed at the top of the output.
The comment contains the message payload followed optionally by a text comment
## Decoding
Every sequence of the two designated chars is stored and decoded.
if `showSource` is enabled, then the source output contains the original message in the comments where it appears
if `showFound` is enabled, the output contains all the decoded instances
### example
[![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/430713.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/430713)