/* Ox.Image provides a pair of methods, encode and decode, which can be used for steganography, i.e. to add a hidden message to an image.

The signature of the encode function is image.encode(message, deflate, mode, callback). deflate turns deflate-compression on or off, and mode determines which bits of the image the message will be written to — but for most purposes, the default values (true and 0) are fine, so deflate and mode can be omitted.

In this example, we demonstrate a valid use case for deflate and mode: To encode an decoy message (a line of text), which will be relatively easy to detect, and then the the actual message, (another image, itself containing another line of text), which will be harder to detect. */ 'use strict'; Ox.load('Image', function() { var $table = Ox.$('').appendTo(Ox.$('body')), $tr, text = { iceland: 'The first image he told me about ' + 'was of three children on a road in Iceland in 1965.', vietnam: 'He said for him it was the image of happiness, ' + 'and that he had often tried to link it to other images, ' + 'but it had never worked.' }; encode(decode); /* So we first encode two lines text into two images, by writing them bit by bit (without compression, deflate = false), into the least significant bit of each 8-bit RGB value (mode = 1). Then we encode one image into the other: We take the (deflate-compressed, deflate = true) data URL of the source image and flip, if needed, the second least significant bit of each RGB value of the target image, so that the number of bits set to 1, modulo 2 (for example: 10101010 -> 0), is the bit we're encoding (mode = -1). As the least significant bit remains untouched, this will preserve the encoded text. */ function encode(callback) { status('Load iceland.png'); Ox.Image('png/iceland.png', function(iceland) { result(Ox.$('').attr({src: iceland.src()})); status( 'Encode the text "' + text.iceland + '" into ' + 'the least significant bits of iceland.png' ); iceland.encode(text.iceland, false, 1, function(iceland) { result(Ox.$('').attr({src: iceland.src()})); status('Load vietnam.png'); Ox.Image('png/vietnam.png', function(vietnam) { result(Ox.$('').attr({src: vietnam.src()})); status( 'Encode the text "' + text.vietnam + '" into' + ' the least significant bits of vietnam.png' ); vietnam.encode(text.vietnam, false, 1, function(vietnam) { result(Ox.$('').attr({src: vietnam.src()})); status( 'Encode vietnam.png into iceland.png ' + 'by flipping the second least significant bits' ); iceland.encode(vietnam.src(), -1, function(iceland) { result(Ox.$('').attr({src: iceland.src()})); callback(iceland); }); }); }); }); }); } /* Finally, we decode all the data again. */ function decode(iceland) { status('Decode the least signigicant bits of iceland.png'); iceland.decode(false, 1, function(str) { result(str); status('Decode all bits of iceland.png'); iceland.decode(-1, function(src) { result( src.slice(0, 32) + ' ... [' + Ox.formatNumber(src.length - 64) + ' more bytes] ... ' + src.slice(-32) ); status('Load as vietnam.png'); Ox.Image(src, function(image) { result(Ox.$('').attr({src: src})); status('Decode the least significant bits of vietnam.png'); image.decode(false, 1, function(str) { result(str); }); }); }); }); } function status(value) { var $td = Ox.$('').append($td).appendTo($table); } function result(value) { var $td = Ox.$('
'); if (Ox.isString(value)) { $td.html( value.replace(/(\w+\.png)/g, '$1') ); } else { $td.append(value); } $tr = Ox.$('
'); if (Ox.isString(value)) { $td.html(value); } else { $td.append(value); } $tr.append($td); } });