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Digital Steganography: Pelin Gul Sankar Das

Digital steganography involves hiding secret information within other digital files or messages. It works by imperceptibly altering parts of digital files like images, audio, or video. The most common technique is least significant bit steganography for digital images. Steganography is used by governments, businesses, and individuals and can provide confidentiality, invisibility, and survivability when combined with cryptography. Detection methods called steganalysis aim to identify and decode hidden messages within files. The future of steganography likely involves further use in digital watermarking for identification purposes.

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Digital Steganography: Pelin Gul Sankar Das

Digital steganography involves hiding secret information within other digital files or messages. It works by imperceptibly altering parts of digital files like images, audio, or video. The most common technique is least significant bit steganography for digital images. Steganography is used by governments, businesses, and individuals and can provide confidentiality, invisibility, and survivability when combined with cryptography. Detection methods called steganalysis aim to identify and decode hidden messages within files. The future of steganography likely involves further use in digital watermarking for identification purposes.

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Digital

Steganography
Pelin Gul
Sankar Das
Outline

 What is Steganography?
 Uses of Steganography
 Its Relation to Cryptography
 Digital Watermarking
 Network Security and Steganography
 Types of Steganography
 Detecting Steganography: Steganalysis
 Future of Steganography
What is Steganography?

 Origin of the term: steganos: secret – graphy: writing


History of Steganography

 Steganography in Ancient Greece


 Ancient Rome - 1499, Steganographia, the
first book about steganography
 World War II Germany - microdots
 Modern Steganography - 1985, with the
development of personal computers
 Digital Steganography – with internet
(e.g.digital watermarking)
Uses of Steganography

 Governments

 Businesses: Digital Watermarking

 Individuals
Steganography & Cryptography

 Steganography and Cryptography are closely


related
 The difference is in their goals...
– Cryptography: although encypted and
unreadable, the existence of data is not hidden
– Steganography: no knowledge of the existence of
the data
 Steganography and Cryptography can be
used together to produce better protection
Digital Watermarking

Image “painted” with the watermark: “Invisible Man” © 1997, Neil F.


Johnson
Digital Watermarking

 Used primarily for identification


 Embedding a unique piece of information
within a medium (typically an image) without
noticeably altering the medium
 Almost impossible to remove without
seriously degrading an image
Digital Steganogaphy & Watermarking

 Digital watermarking hides data in a file, and


the act of hiding data makes it a form or
steganography
 The key difference is their goals...
– Steganography: hiding information
– Watermarking: extending the file with extra
information
 Steganographic information must never be
apparent to a viewer unaware of its
presence.
Network Security and Steganography

 Confidentiality: any unauthorized person does


not know that sensitive data exists
 Survivability: verifying that the data does not get
destroyed in the transmission
 No detection: cannot be easily found out that the
data is hidden in a given file
 Visibility: people cannot see any visible changes
to the file in which the data is hidden
Types of Digital Steganography

 Hiding a Message inside Text


 Hiding a Message inside Images
– Most popular technique
 Hiding a Message inside Audio and Video
Files
Hiding a Message inside Text

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Hiding a Message inside Text

 First-letter algorithm
 Every n-th character
 Altering the amount of whitespace
 Using a publicly available cover source
Hiding a Message inside Images

 The most popular medium!

 Least-significant bit (LSB) modifications


– 24-bit vs. 8-bit images
– Tools to implement LSB: EzStego and S-Tools
 Masking and Filtering
 Algorithms and Transformations
Hiding an Image within an Image
 Removing all but the two least significant bits of each color
component produces an almost completely black image.
Making that image 85 times brighter produces the image below

 source: wikipedia.org
Hiding a Message inside Audio or
Videos Files

 Advantages
– Human limitations – 20.000 Hz.
– Large amount of data that can be hidden inside
– Hard to recognize because of because of the
continuous flow of information (moving stream of
images and sound)
Steganalysis

 Detecting and decoding the hidden data


within a given medium
 Even if secret content is not revealed,
modifying the cover medium changes the
medium’s statistical properties
 Distributed Dictionary Attack
Future of Steganography

 The most important use of steganographic


techniques will probably lie in the field of
digital watermarking
 Might become limited under laws -
governments claimed that criminals use
steganography to communicate

...the End

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