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How hard would it be to make an encryption system that produces a normal-looking text, which can only be decrypted with a specific key?



Steganography is hard. You need a large amount of cover text to hide the plain text.

Many steganography systems use images or video or sound, but are 'proof of concept' - toys for learning - rather than serious tools. This, unfortunately, includes many of the steganography systems described as serious tools.

One of the problems of hiding text in text is persuading people not to re-use the cover text.


You´re probably better of using steganography and hiding your message on images or videos.


What your parent comment described is steganography. It's not strictly limited to images or videos.

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HEYLO ?


It would perhaps be possible to adapt text watermarking tools like <http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2002/Sep/68> to function as steganography tools.




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