Steganography for Invisible Communication: A Review

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Awdhesh Kumar Shukla
Amod Kumar, Chief Scientist, Vishu

Abstract

Steganography is the science and art of embedding secret messages in innocuous looking carriers in such a way that it does not draw the attention of anyone other than the sender and the targeted recipient, thus a method for secret and invisible communication which provides security through obscurity. Its main purpose is to hide the occurrence of communication over a public channel. Steganography has been used since ancient times and has grown exponentially in the recent past because of the improvements in computing power. Earlier, steganography was implemented using some physical medium i.e. some tangible objects but now a days, it is implemented electronically by using several other intangible objects i.e. data can be hidden using any type of media, be it image in bmp, jpeg, gif format or some music file, video clip, text file, SMS etc. In this paper, different types of techniques used to hide data have been discussed with major focus on image based modern stegano-graphic techniques.

 


Keywords: Steganography, steganalysis, cryptography, digital watermarking, stego-key

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