------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stenography - Hiding files in other files (such as images) This is generally hiding information so that it appears to be something else. If it can be hidden perfectly (not typical the case when hiding say images in some other other images) then you can also encrypt the data as a exta level of security. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography =============================================================================== Image message hiding (or in video) Commercial http://mozaiq.org/encrypt/ Basied on Genetic Algorithm based Mosaic Image Steganography for Enhanced Security https://www.slideshare.net/ideseditor/17-30793821 Opensource Project https://github.com/dyne/Tomb/wiki/Advancedfeatures OpenPuff http://download.cnet.com/OpenPuff/3000-2092_4-75450743.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAR/Zip files in PNG images RAR files can be added to end of a PNG file, and will still decode! PNG itself is a well defined image format with well defined end data marker. Hide by appending to a PNG file. rar a archive.rar file cat archive.rar >> picture.png Extract unrar x picture.png or extract specific file unrar p -inul picture.png file For zip files use 7Zip to extract Best to make sure picture around the same size or larger, compared to the RAR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------