bash-3.2$ echo "super secret message" > msg.txt
bash-3.2$ cat msg.txt | ./steg.py kitty.png
bash-3.2$ ls
kitty-enc.png kitty.png msg.txt steg.py
bash-3.2$ ./steg.py -d kitty-enc.png
super secret message
bash-3.2$
This is obiously not at all secure... if you want security, encrypt the data before encoding it in the image. Currently, only uncompressed formats like PNG are supported.