To demonstrate what I mean: Pony Tough Feature Post is a URL for the Ramble Privacy forum, at least provided you can guess or are told that yygq26yg goes at the end of a TinyURL. Although I made a little html file ( https://github.com/Stegacite/stegacite/blob/main/SOUTH%20Matrix%20illustration%20v0-2.html ) with a script to help you convert back and forth between those two - or any other Ramble page you put into TinyURL - it's really just a simple look up table you can use as a PDF, not rocket science. But I don't remember seeing anything similar. The goal is to help out people trying to use benighted forums that might ban a Rambler link, or a TinyURL link that goes there, but might not know or care about the four words above.

I linked the site at top - I hope that isn't considered spamming; I haven't made a Github page before this and I haven't even tried to do a "release" yet - I was surprised to see six people cloned it. I feel like I've invented a way to make it harder for machines to censor people, but I don't know what I should do to move things on after this.

Feel free to suggest anything, however stupid. Honestly, it took a week for me to realize the documentation was supposed to be readable from the page that said "Hi There"...

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J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote on January 17, 2021 at 9:49 AM

Tricky! I think I'd do my steganography in images like everyone else. ("Steghide", etc.)

Stegacite OP wrote on January 17, 2021 at 5:09 PM

This program isn't doing steganography or encryption of any kind. Encryption means you want to send something to someone you don't know who has a special key to understand it. The goal here is to send something to someone you don't know who doesn't have any advantages at all over the people you don't want to receive the text. So it's like a CAPTCHA for censors to fill out - a way to make it harder for a machine to tell tens of thousands of people what information they're allowed to pass on.

Rambler wrote on January 17, 2021 at 1:58 PM

Sounds interesting, and I'm just getting up and moving around so I need to rub the sleep out my eyes and look at it closer.

To demonstrate what I mean: Pony Tough Feature Post is a URL for the Ramble Privacy forum,

I searched, but couldn't find this site. Care to send me the link?

Any project that teaches you something new is a project worth doing.

Stegacite OP wrote on January 17, 2021 at 5:07 PM

Sorry - the link in the text is an HTML file ... it turns out that Github's idea of an HTML file is their page showing you the HTML source. So you actually have to copy and paste it into a text file and save to desktop to use it. Unless there's some feature/setting I missed, which is more likely than not.

Meanwhile, I think you should be able to run the demonstrator for real at https://jsfiddle.net/Lke6p3dq/ - which, with some hint to apply the suffix to JSFiddle, can be described as myrtle fame jail totally