Hiding Data in Plain Sight: Building Anyhide in Rust

This is the first post of a 6-part series where I unpack the design of Anyhide — a steganography tool I built in Rust. Each post tackles one feature, one decision, and the code behind it. Classical steganography is simple: you take an image, flip the least-significant bits of some pixels, and smuggle your message inside. The image now carries a payload. You send the image. The recipient extracts the payload. It works. It's also, in 2026, kind of a disaster. LSB steganography is detectable by sta