Add Reed-Solomon error correction to DCT steganography

- Add reedsolo library for RS error correction (32 symbols = 16 byte correction per 223-byte chunk)
- Protect entire payload (header + data) with RS encoding
- Store 3 copies of length header with majority voting for robustness
- Handle RS chunking overhead (varies based on data size)
- Update capacity calculation to account for RS overhead (24 bytes prefix + variable RS overhead)
- Add RS to dct, web, and api optional dependencies
- Update about.html with v4.1.0 Reed-Solomon feature
- Update module docstring

This fixes DCT decode failures with certain carrier images that have
uniform areas causing unstable DCT coefficients.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Aaron D. Lee
2026-01-04 22:28:58 -05:00
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<li><strong>Output:</strong> JPEG or PNG</li>
<li><strong>Color:</strong> Color or grayscale</li>
<li><strong>Speed:</strong> ~2s</li>
<li><strong>Error Correction:</strong> Reed-Solomon <span class="badge bg-info ms-1">v4.1</span></li>
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<td><strong>4.1.0</strong></td>
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<strong>Reed-Solomon error correction</strong> for DCT mode (corrects up to 16 byte errors per 223-byte chunk),
majority voting on length headers, improved robustness with problematic carrier images
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<td><strong>4.0.0</strong></td>
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<strong>Channel keys</strong> for group/deployment isolation,
DCT default, simplified auth, passphrase replaces day_phrase,
DCT default, simplified auth, passphrase replaces day_phrase,
4-word default, JPEG fix, large image support, subprocess isolation, Python 3.10-3.12
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