British designers have replaced cryptocurrency wallets coded pictures

A group of British developers announced the release of open source software, which allows you to replace wallets cryptocurrency coded pictures.

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The protocol uses two cryptographic techniques: Rijndael or AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and steganography, a method that allows to hide data in the image, message, document or video.

With this protocol purses are not connected to the network, encrypted and stored in the image, convert it to one and zeros that are added to RGB-data (color palette) in each pixel of the image. This increases the level of data security and reduces the risk of users losing funds.

To evaluate all the pros and cons of using this protocol is difficult. For example, it is unclear whether the image data when sending to the device with the device retained by messengers (in particular, WhatsApp) or image compression.

Note that the development team has already announced that in case of successful completion of the project will encryption cryptocurrency purses in audio files.