Stealth Messenger 🎯
Basic Details
Team Name: X_Elite
Team Members
Team Lead: Amith Biju
Member 2: Aswin P Pai
Project Description
Stealth Messenger is our totally useless project… unless you’re in the military, work in defense, or just enjoy hiding cat memes in images without anyone knowing. It allows you to hide encrypted messages inside images using advanced bit manipulation, making them invisible to prying eyes. Only our software can decrypt them, ensuring maximum secrecy.
The Problem (that doesn’t exist)
Ever had a life-or-death military secret… but didn’t want to use WhatsApp because Mark Zuckerberg might be watching? Or maybe you wanted to send your crush a love letter disguised as a JPEG of your lunch? Yeah, we “solved” that problem.
The Solution (that nobody asked for)
We change the bits of your image so stealthily that even your GPU won’t notice.
Encryption ✅
Decryption ✅
AWS hosting ✅
Cool hacker vibes ✅
Technical Details
Technologies / Components Used
For Software:
Languages: Python, C
Frameworks: Flask
Libraries: Flask-CORS, Pillow, Gunicorn
Tools: AWS EC2 Hosting, Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
For Hardware:
None — just your laptop, Wi-Fi, and a questionable sense of humor
Implementation
Installation Use this website link to see working https://tinyurl.com/3mapuze8 (we had updated the link due to issues in AWS server) Also try download bnp images for encoding and decoding.. git clone https://github.com/yourusername/stealth-messenger.git cd stealth-messenger pip install -r requirements.txt
Run
python app.py
(Or if deploying on AWS: use gunicorn app:app with Nginx reverse proxy)
Project Documentation
Screenshots
Message hidden inside an image
Decrypted message displayed
Our ultra-secure “upload image” page
Try sample encrypted and decrepted images https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FnK93yhruFZdAzgg3AxyPWloVZtd8E7H
Diagrams
Step-by-step encryption & decryption process
Project Demo
Video:(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FnK93yhruFZdAzgg3AxyPWloVZtd8E7H) This video shows how we encrypt, hide, and decrypt messages from an image using our Flask + C powered tool.
Team Contributions
Amith Biju: Flask backend, AWS deployment, C encryption logic
Aswin P Pai: Frontend design, image handling, integration testing
Hosting Info
Our project is hosted on AWS EC2 using Flask + Gunicorn with Nginx.