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pschmidt
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2 months ago
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Historic Steganography Lab

I've been stuck on question 6 in the Stenography lab within the Historic Encryption upskill series. I'm not sure if I'm missing something within the command line or if the password/passphrase for the...
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  • steven's avatar
    steven
    2 months ago

    try:

    iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$ steghide extract -sf image2.jpg 
Enter passphrase: 
wrote extracted data to "image-3-password.txt".
iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$

    although this should work too:

    iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$ steghide extract -sf image2.jpg 
Enter passphrase: 
wrote extracted data to "image-3-password.txt".
iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$

    maybe the extra space before 'image2.jpg' is not working or you're in the wrong directory?
    because the tool is even asking for the password once the file is not existing:

    iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$ steghide extract -sf image99.jpg 
Enter passphrase: 
steghide: could not open the file "image99.jpg".
iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$

     

steven's avatar
steven
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2 months ago

try:

iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$ steghide extract -sf image2.jpg 
Enter passphrase: 
wrote extracted data to "image-3-password.txt".
iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$

although this should work too:

iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$ steghide extract -sf image2.jpg 
Enter passphrase: 
wrote extracted data to "image-3-password.txt".
iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$

maybe the extra space before 'image2.jpg' is not working or you're in the wrong directory?
because the tool is even asking for the password once the file is not existing:

iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$ steghide extract -sf image99.jpg 
Enter passphrase: 
steghide: could not open the file "image99.jpg".
iml-user@steganography:~/Desktop/steganography-files$

 

  • pschmidt's avatar
    pschmidt
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    2 months ago

    Thanks Steve, that helped and got me rolling again!