hidden

Documentation

Overview

Package hidden provides the ability to "hide" binary data in a string using a hex encoding with non-printing characters. Hidden data is demarcated with a leading and trailing NUL character.

Index

• func Clean(str string) string
• func Extract(str string) ([][]byte, error)
• func FromString(str string) ([]byte, error)
• func ToString(data []byte) string

Functions

func Clean

func Clean(str string) string

Clean removes all control characters that might be encoding hidden data from a given string.

func Extract

func Extract(str string) ([][]byte, error)

Extract extracts all hidden data from an arbitrary string.

func FromString

func FromString(str string) ([]byte, error)

FromString extracts the hidden data from a string, which is expected to contain leading and trailing NULs.

func ToString

func ToString(data []byte) string

ToString encodes the given data as a hidden string, including leadnig and trailing NULs.