02/07: gnu: steghide: Temper expectation.

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commit 54a31641fd73ee43ad468406a2d5a28395b87a44
Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
AuthorDate: Sun Oct 30 02:00:00 2022 +0100

    gnu: steghide: Temper expectation.
    
    * gnu/packages/image.scm (steghide)[synopsis, description]: Make clear
    that it's two steps above rot13 on the srs bzns cryptography scale.
---
 gnu/packages/image.scm | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/image.scm b/gnu/packages/image.scm
index cfd65c8bfa..f6ee6c8ead 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image.scm
@@ -1535,11 +1535,16 @@ differences in file encoding, image quality, and other 
small variations.")
     (inputs
      (list libjpeg-turbo libmhash libmcrypt zlib))
     (home-page "http://steghide.sourceforge.net";)
-    (synopsis "Image and audio steganography")
+    (synopsis "`Hide' (nonconfidential) data in image or audio files")
     (description
-     "Steghide is a program to hide data in various kinds of image and audio
-files (known as @dfn{steganography}).  Neither color nor sample frequencies are
-changed, making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical 
tests.")
+     "Steghide is a program to `hide' data in various kinds of image and audio
+files.  This practice is known as @dfn{steganography}, but the method used by
+steghide is not very secure and should not be used where security is at stake.
+Even if a password is used, steghide offers little plausible deniability.
+
+Nonetheless, neither color nor sample frequencies are changed, making the
+embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests not aimed
+specifically at this tool.")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
 
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