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'''Steganosaurus (stego)''' by John Walker is a DOS text steganography program.

It transforms any binary file into nonsense text based on a dictionary either given explicitly or built on the fly from a source document. The output of stego is nonsense, but statistically resembles text in the language of the dictionary supplied. Although a human reader will instantly recognise it as gibberish, statistical sampling employed by eavesdroppers to detect encrypted messages may consider it to be unremarkable.

== Links ==
* [https://www.fourmilab.ch/nav/topics/crypto.html Homepage]
* [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/stego.shar.gz Download mirror]
* [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/stego.txt.gz Manual] ([https://web.archive.org/web/19970606030845/http://www.fourmilab.ch/stego/ mirror])
* [http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/PROGRAMS/STEGO2.ZIP OS/2 version]

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+'''Steganosaurus (stego)''' by John Walker is a UNIX program that transforms any binary file into nonsense text based on a dictionary either given explicitly or built on the fly from a source document. The output of stego is nonsense, but statistically resembles text in the language of the dictionary supplied. Although a human reader will instantly recognize it as gibberish, statistical sampling employed by eavesdroppers to detect encrypted messages may consider it to be unremarkable.
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 * [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/stego.shar.gz Download mirror]
 * [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/stego.txt.gz Manual] ([https://web.archive.org/web/19970606030845/http://www.fourmilab.ch/stego/ mirror])
 * [http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/PROGRAMS/STEGO2.ZIP OS/2 version] ([https://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/emx/emx_v09d/index.html required EMX runtime])