Your assignment is to analyze the two files tolstoy-war-and-peace.txt and tolstoy-war-and-peace-augmented.txt.

While they appear superficially to be the same text file, one of the two files has a hidden message in it. I would suggest doing both a diff and a xxd of both files in order to gain a more exact understanding of the files.

There are two programs on the 45.56.74.139 server that might help you: steghide and snow. One of these two programs was used to put a hidden message in the file.

Your task is to extract the cleartext of the hidden message (the cleartext message is in English); save that on the server in a file called "CIS4385-assignment-1-cleartext.txt".

You don't have to submit anything; the grader will simply review your cleartext file found on the server to make sure that it is the correct file. This file must be in your home directory by the beginning of class on Tuesday, February 4. Since I will use an automated process to collect it, please make sure that the filename is exactly the same as the specified one.