Thinking about the snowy alpine mountains or the mount Everest.......Then you are no were near the answer.Do know that its a very boring introduction but this technology or the so called software is not so.In simple its a software that allows for storing datas or informations in an encrypted form.Here text messages are concealed in text messages.Unlike stegnography where messages are concealed in images.This is much more safer as it does not arouse suspicion like the image files,moreover these files are smaller in size.Now into technical details.......
The program snow is used to conceal messages in ASCII text by appending whitespace to the end of lines. Because spaces and tabs are generally not visible in text viewers, the message is effectively hidden from casual observers. And if the built-in encryption is used, the message cannot be read even if it is detected.
snow exploits the steganographic nature of whitespace. Locating trailing whitespace in text is like finding a polar bear in a snowstorm (which, by the way, explains the logo).
The logo below looks pretty blank, doesn't it? Just the word SNOW on a white background?
To the human eye, there is no discernable difference between the pixel values 254 and 255, especially when displayed on a computer monitor. Actually, with the colourmap conservation schemes employed by most browsers, they are probably displayed as truly identical pixels anyway.
However, the difference is there in the image file, even if it is not visible. This allows information to be hidden in an image, a fact that has been exploited by a number of steganography programs. In this case, there is a polar bear drawn in colours one-less-than-white.
To see the bear, we simply tweak the colourmap.
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