HIP (Hide In Picture) is a program that lets you "hide" files inside bitmaps (.bmp files) and/or GIF, protecting them with a password. The pictures look like normal images, so no one will suspect there is hidden data in them. This technique is known as steganography. You can use a normal cryptography program to protect secret data from other people, but then, even if they aren't able to read it, they will be able to see you are hiding something. With HIP, you can hide your secret data inside an innocent family photograph or even your Windows background, and nobody will ever suspect it.

Features
>> Encryption - All data is encrypted before being written to apicture, to increase security. HIP offers several (well, currently only two) encryption algorithms you can choose from; all of them are considered very secure, so you don't have to worry about it unless you have a specific reason for wanting to use a specific algorithm.When retrieving a file, HIP tries using all the available algorithms to find the correct one.

>> Transparent color support - One color of the picture may be set as 'transparent'; nothing will be stored in areas of this color. This can be useful, for example, when hiding a file in an image from a Web page, as its transparent areas will remain as they were before.To retrieve a file hidden using this option, you must set the transparent color to the same used when hiding it.Transparent colors for GIF files are automatically loaded/saved.

>> Erase file option - If you want to remove a file hidden in a picture, use this option. It will overwrite the file with random data, so the file will be unrecoverable. If you know the password with which the file was hidden, you can provide it and only the necessary areas will be overwritten, resulting in a very small quality loss; however, if you provide the wrong password, the file will not be erased properly. If you do not provide a password, HIP will overwrite more of the picture to account for all the possible passwords, causing a larger quality loss.


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