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Mastering Python for Networking and Security

You're reading from   Mastering Python for Networking and Security Leverage the scripts and libraries of Python version 3.7 and beyond to overcome networking and security issues

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217166
Length 538 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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José Manuel Ortega José Manuel Ortega
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Python Environment and System Programming Tools
2. Chapter 1: Working with Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: System Programming Packages 4. Section 2: Network Scripting and Extracting Information from the Tor Network with Python
5. Chapter 3: Socket Programming 6. Chapter 4: HTTP Programming 7. Chapter 5: Connecting to the Tor Network and Discovering Hidden Services 8. Section 3: Server Scripting and Port Scanning with Python
9. Chapter 6: Gathering Information from Servers 10. Chapter 7: Interacting with FTP, SFTP, and SSH Servers 11. Chapter 8: Working with Nmap Scanner 12. Section 4: Server Vulnerabilities and Security in Python Modules
13. Chapter 9: Interacting with Vulnerability Scanners 14. Chapter 10: Identifying Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications 15. Chapter 11: Security and Vulnerabilities in Python Modules 16. Section 5: Python Forensics
17. Chapter 12: Python Tools for Forensics Analysis 18. Chapter 13: Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers 19. Chapter 14: Cryptography and Steganography 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Steganography with Stepic

Stepic provides a Python module and a command-line interface to hide arbitrary data within images using the LSB technique. You can install it with the following command:

$ pip3 install stepic

Stepic provides the following methods available for encoding and decoding data in images:

>>> import stepic
>>> help(stepic)
Help on module stepic:
NAME
    stepic - # stepic - Python image steganography
FUNCTIONS
    decode(image)
        extracts data from an image
    decode_imdata(imdata)
        Given a sequence of pixels, returns an iterator of characters
        encoded in the image
    encode(image, data)
        generates an image with hidden data, starting with an existing
    ...
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