I have the idea to use blender to build a free, easy to use encryption device for videos embedded inside other videos. Since i am stuck at the beginning, not having a real clue apart from the guttural feeling that it should work, i though i ask you.
My loose thoughts so far:
-the hidden data should be intact after up- and downloading to and from youtube.
-the key should be some sort of inconspicuous picture. A simple png or jpg say of the chinese wall.
- I have a vague vision that animation nodes could help. And: Could one make use of the different data container formats? 8, 16 and 32 bit? Does youtube store deeper colors than 8 bit? Use the alpha channel?
-How big can the bandwidth of the news get in order for the carrier wave to be unconspicuous? I'm thinking at a shrinked color space for the news. B/w? Changing the value of a pixel of the carrier could be similar to changing what? A compression algo? A letter of the alphabet?
In the end it should work like this: Plug a video into blender; plug an image as well. Get your secret message as outcome. Neither the video nor the image should look conspicuous.
What can you come up with?