Hiding Information- A Survey
Abstract
Steganography is the science that involves communicating secret data in an appropriate multimedia carrier, e.g., image audio, and video files. It comes under the assumption that if the feature is visible, the point of attack is evident, thus the goal here is always to conceal the very existence of the embedded data. In comparison with Analog media, Digital media offers several distinctadvantages such as high quality, easy editing, high fidelity copying, compression etcIn order to address this Information Security,Steganography plays an important role. Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messagesin such a way that no one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hiddenmessage. This paper is a tutorial review of the steganography techniques appeared in the literature.
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[Revelation]: http://revelation.atspace.biz/
[Camouflage]: http://camouflage.unfiction.com/
[JpegX]: http://www.freewarefiles.com/Jpegx_program_19392.html
[Data Stash]: http://www.skyjuicesoftware.com/software/ds_info.html
[Other Tools]: http://www.jjtc.com/Security/stegtools.htm
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