How To Install snowdrop on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install snowdrop on Kali Linux.

What is snowdrop

snowdrop is:

Snowdrop provides reliable, difficult to remove steganographic watermarking of text documents (internal memos, draft research papers, advisories and other writing) and C sources (limited distribution software, licensed software, or freely available code) so that: (1) leaks can be identified if the data goes public. (2) original source can be determined and demonstrated if part of the document is claimed by somebody else, copied without permission, etc. Snowdrop uses redundant steganography using four different logical channels, and should be proof to many modifications, including reformatting, spell checking and so on.

This package is useful in forensic investigations and security actions. It provides three commands: sd-eng, sd-engf and sd-c. sd-eng and sd-engf provide watermarking for draft-quality and fine-quality English language text documents, respectively, whereas sd-c provides experimental C source code watermarking.

Warning: Snowdrop is currently in beta, and may produce bad or corrupted results, especially when run on C source code.

There are three methods to install snowdrop on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install snowdrop Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install snowdrop using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install snowdrop

Install snowdrop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install snowdrop using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install snowdrop

Install snowdrop Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install snowdrop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install snowdrop

How To Uninstall snowdrop on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the snowdrop package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove snowdrop

Uninstall snowdrop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall snowdrop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove snowdrop

Remove snowdrop Configurations and Data

To remove snowdrop configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge snowdrop

Remove snowdrop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove snowdrop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snowdrop

Dependencies

snowdrop have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgnutls-openssl27

References

• snowdrop website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install snowdrop package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.