This Image Could Be Your New Password Method 🖼️

Passwords are used for almost every account on the internet to protect your digital identity and data. But a lot of them are insecure, so let's explore a new approach of using passwords, using images. With steganography we can store passwords in images without altering their appearance in a significant way. To improve the workflow of password images I developed a browser extension that automatically decrypts the passwords stored inside of images and logs you into your account. A similar password management system is used by @PirateSoftware as described in one of his stream shorts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udf44K6rt-E

Plain Sight Browser Extension: https://github.com/bufferhead-code/plain-sight
Digi-Cloak: https://github.com/kaushalmeena/digi-cloak

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Steganography is the technique of embedding data into a different type of medium. Most of the time it is images but it can also be audio, video or even text. Data in images is often hidden using the steganography method LSB also known as least significant bit, which ensures that the images is altered as little as possible. In Computer Science it is often a way to play around with and is commonly used in CTF Contests but security agencies use it sometimes to hide their communication as well. A lot of the time the messages stored in images are encrypted as well for example using symmetric AES Encryption to keep the actual content of the message secure even if someone detects that steganography has been used. For storing passwords in images we use this approach as well and store the password encrypted inside our image to make sure nobody can read the password even if they obtain the images. Steganography is commonly used to hide secrets in images.