STEGANOGRAPHY: THE ART OF COVERT COMMUNICATION

Abstract

This paper presents a base study of Steganography. Steganography is an important area of research in recent years involving a number of applications. In another words we can say that it is technique of hidden communication in which existence of secret hidden remains invisible. Here we have critically compared various information security methods and also have covered Steganography overview, its major types, classification with less detail of Steganalysis, which is the art and science of defeating Steganography.