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 This is my ongoing project to hide messages using a C project and in later stages be able to integrate it to provide a GUI for ease of operation.
 
+Encrytion would require the use of [openssl](https://www.openssl.org/)
 ## To Compile
 
 ```gcc steg -o steg.c encode.c```