# HG changeset patch # User David Barts # Date 1586637506 25200 # Node ID 0528030187e9ddd491ccf4152dc3b5050401ca79 # Parent 304492a6b72bebf2584937374db7866cc475fda4 More Readme updates. diff -r 304492a6b72b -r 0528030187e9 Readme.html --- a/Readme.html Sat Apr 11 11:24:25 2020 -0700 +++ b/Readme.html Sat Apr 11 13:38:26 2020 -0700 @@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ choice of metadata to be scrubbed, click “Wash” and all offending metadata will be removed. A dialog will pop up showing the metadata remaining in the new, washed file.

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Important: Run ExifWasher Last!

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Most image-editing tools insert telltale bits of metadata into the output + they create. Thus, only way you can create a file with the minimum amount + of metadata in it is to run ExifWasher as the final step in your image + preparation.

Output Files

ExifWasher never modifies an existing image file. Instead, it creates a new file of the same type but with “_washed” appended to its name. For @@ -89,5 +94,18 @@ metadata key, and those that match a key prefix. The latter end in an asterisk. The whitelist is case-sensitive; i.e. the entry exif.image.colormap will not match the Exif.Image.ColorMap key.

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That’s about It

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ExifWasher does not, and probably never will, do anything but remove + extraneous metadata.

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First, I have no desire to re-invent the wheel. There are already + excellent open-source tools like Gimp for image editing, and ExifTool and + Exiv2 for general-purpose metadata editing (in fact, ExifWasher is built + on top of Exiv2). If you need the functionality of some other tool, + download and use it!

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Second (and more importantly), I want ExifWasher to be simple, and + therefore easy to learn and easy to use. The more challenging an + information-security tool is to use, the less likely it is to be used + frequently, and the more likely it is that compromising information gets + disclosed.