Steganography Secure File Transfer 🖼️🔐

Description

The Steganography Secure File Transfer project is a web application that allows users to encode and decode messages within images. It utilizes steganography techniques to securely hide messages within image files, ensuring privacy and confidentiality during file transfers. 🤫

Features 🌟

• Encode Message into Image: Upload an image and input a message to be encrypted and embedded within the image. 📩
• Decode Message from Image: Upload an encoded image to extract and display the hidden message. 📤
• User-Friendly Interface: Designed with simplicity in mind, providing a seamless experience for users. 🎨

Technologies Used 🛠️

• Flask: A lightweight WSGI web application framework for Python.
• HTML/CSS: For the front-end user interface.
• JavaScript: To handle form submissions and display dynamic content.
• Pillow (PIL): For image processing and manipulation.

Getting Started 🚀

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• Flask
• Pillow

Installation

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/UraniumUtkarsh/steganography-secure-file-transfer.git
   cd steganography-secure-file-transfer

2. Install the required dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Generate the secret.key (Required only once, during setting up the app):

   python generate_key.py

Running the Application

1. Start the Flask development server:

   python app.py

2. Open your web browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5000/. 🌐

Usage 📘

• To Encode: Navigate to the "Encode Message into Image" section, enter your message, select an image, and click "Encode". ✏️
• To Decode: Navigate to the "Decode Message from Image" section, upload the encoded image, and click "Decode". 📖

File Structure 🗂️

/steganography-secure-file-transfer
│
├── app.py                # Main application file
├── static                # Directory for static files (CSS, images)
│   └── images            # Directory for image assets
├── templates             # Directory for HTML templates
│   └── index.html        # Main HTML file for the application
├── requirements.txt      # Python dependencies
└── README.md             # Project documentation

Contributing 🤝

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a pull request or report any issues you encounter.

Acknowledgments 🙏

• Special thanks to the contributors and resources that helped in the development of this project.