Rook Stego or Rooks is a steganographic tool that implements some of the most advanced hiding methods. It works with bmp, png, jpeg, webp formats.
Rooks doesn’t provide any compression methods because they perform very poorly compared to what you can do manually.
This is free and open source software.
Website: gitlab.com/harrose/rooks
Support:
Developer: harrose
License: MIT License

Rooks is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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