New Open-Source Tool Hides Encrypted Messages Inside AI-Generated Chat Text
Summary
A new open-source tool called Conversation Stenography lets users hide AES-SIV encrypted messages inside AI-generated chat text, enabling covert communication across any messaging platform without ever sending data unencrypted or to the cloud.
Key Points
- A new open-source tool called Conversation Stenography is making waves, allowing users to encrypt secret messages and disguise them as innocent, natural-looking chat text generated by a local AI model, enabling covert communication over any messaging platform.
- The tool uses AES-SIV military-grade encryption, a cryptographically linked conversation chain, and a locally running AI model to ensure messages are never sent unencrypted or processed in the cloud, with the shared secret phrase derived via PBKDF2 with 600,000 rounds.
- Currently a proof of concept built in Go with Python model support, the project supports multiple AI models including GPT-2 and Llama variants, and warns that detection techniques for AI-generated steganographic text are already being developed.