You never know when we will need to send an important file to one of our friends, which absolutely no one should see due to the relevance it may have. If we work in Windows we will have the possibility of adopt a few tricks to camouflage, to a certain number of files within completely different ones.
In this article we will mention a few alternatives that you can adopt for this purpose, that is, depending on what you want to hide in a specific file, you can integrate it into another completely different and password protected at best.
1. Our Secret
This is our first proposal, an application called Our Secret that has a user-friendly interface. The image that we will place below is a sample of this and where the different functions are limited only to having to choose source files (those we want to protect or hide) and the destination.
As additional options, Our Secret offers us the possibility of being able to protect our files to be sent more securely, having to use a password for this. The person who receives this file must extract its contents using the password that we send them through another type of message; Although this tool is compatible with different types of files, there could be a few errors with flat documents, some of the XML type, HTML pages and some more.
2. Clotho
If for some reason the application we mentioned above did not work for you, a good alternative is found here. This has a greater number of options when it comes to hiding a certain number of files from a completely different one.
The screenshot at the top shows us how we should work with this tool; The user has the ability to choose a file or an entire folder where some are located to protect. The resulting file will not show any trace of what it contains inside. If you wish to reinforce the security and privacy of the file that we will send (with others hidden inside), we can use a secure password so that no one else (except the interested party) can decompress its content (Unofficial Source: http: //goo.gl/ky8D5s).
3. ImageHide
With a limited number of options, this tool also offers us the possibility of hide important information in an image or photograph.
The image that we place at the top tells us that first we must load (import) a photograph; Later we can use the field at the bottom of the imported image to write any text or also, to import it from a flat document. When we have finished completing this step we can save the image under a completely different name. You can also enter a password to reinforce the security of the file that we will send to the final recipient.
4.Camouflage
The form to work this tool It is something very interesting; We only have to install it so that an additional option is generated in the context menu, this being the little trick that we will have to choose later.
When opening our file explorer, we just have to select one or more files and then use the right mouse button. At that moment the contextual menu will be activated and we will see the camouflage option that this tool offers us. We can hide the files in a different one and also use a password if we wish. It is worth mentioning that the person who will obtain the file that we will send also needs to use the tool to be able to extract the content of what we will send.
With these four alternatives that we have mentioned, we can now use any of them to send files or documents hidden within an image or any other different file. It is worth mentioning that the second alternative offers a high level of effectiveness, although the official website of its developer has disappeared for the moment, which is the reason why we have offered the "unofficial" link, which means that it isWe must be careful when using this alternative since the antivirus system could detect some type of failure.