The project is Hide_&_Seek.

Here’s a step-by-step walkthrough of how you'd build a steganography system that hides and reveals a secret message inside an image using LSB (Least Significant Bit) and password protection:

🧪 1. Choose a Cover Image Pick a lossless image format like PNG so that pixel data doesn’t get distorted during saving.

🔐 2. Encrypt the Message with a Password Before hiding the message, encrypt it using a password. This ensures that even if someone extracts the message, they can’t read it without the correct password.

🔁 3. Convert Encrypted Message to Binary Once encrypted, convert the byte data of the message into a binary sequence—every character becomes a string of 0s and 1s.

🖼️ 4. Embed Binary into Image with LSB Modify the least significant bit of the image’s pixel values (usually the red, green, or blue channels) to encode each bit of the binary message. Since it’s the “least” significant, the color change is visually unnoticeable.

💾 5. Save the New Stego Image Once the data is embedded, save this new image. It now visually looks identical but secretly carries your hidden, encrypted message.

🔎 6. Extract LSB Bits from Stego Image To read the message, scan the same pixel channels to extract the LSBs. Reconstruct the binary data and convert it back to bytes.

🔓 7. Decrypt the Message with Password Now decrypt the extracted byte data using the same password that was used earlier. If it matches, you get the original hidden message.

This approach is a mix of cryptography and steganography, adding a strong layer of protection to your data. If you're planning to build this for desktop or Android, I can tailor the workflow accordingly—like using Bitmap methods in Android or Python's PIL for desktop.