encrypt message in html file

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Gregory Biasky

Hello. How you can encrypt a message using as a container HTML file,
that is, the message must be recorded in the gaps that HTML ignores.
 
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Phillip Gawlowski

Hello. How you can encrypt a message using as a container HTML file,
that is, the message must be recorded in the gaps that HTML ignores.
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HTML has no "gaps", in the sense that content is ignored.

The only way to transfer a cyphertext in HTML would be the <meta /> tag,
which is ignored if a *browser*, or rather HTML rendering engine, cannot
make sense of it (it's still available if you look in the HTML source).

Content in the <body /> is displayed as best as possible by the
rendering engine.

This is, however, not cryptography, but a very poor man's steganography,
in the first place.

This is probably better placed on the security-basics mailing list[0],
rather than ruby-talk, too.

[0] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/105/description
 
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Gregory Biasky

it does not address the problem of safety, it is a task for the
demonstration of shorthand, using as a container, not the image of a
html file. In general, how to find a whitespace and insert there the
encrypted information, that is the question *?
 
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Phillip Gawlowski

it does not address the problem of safety, it is a task for the
demonstration of shorthand, using as a container, not the image of a
html file. In general, how to find a whitespace and insert there the
encrypted information, that is the question *?
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"string with_a_space".gsub " ","some_other_text_maybe_encrypted"

That does not, however, *hide* your text.

BTW: shorthand is *not* steganography (you were talking about the latter
in your OP).
 
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Marnen Laibow-Koser

Gregory said:
it does not address the problem of safety, it is a task for the
demonstration of shorthand, using as a container, not the image of a
html file. In general, how to find a whitespace and insert there the
encrypted information, that is the question *?
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You could put it in comments, or encode it as whitespace characters, or
use a fake tag.
Note that this has nothing to do with Ruby and so is off topic here.

Best,
-- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
(e-mail address removed)
 

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