STEGANOGRAPHY

Abstract

Steganography is the art of hiding the fact that communication is taking place, by hiding information in the other information. Many different carrier file formats can be used, but digital images are the most popular because of their frequency on the Internet. For hiding secret information in images, there exists large variety of steganographic techniques some are more complex than others and all of them have respective strong and weak points. Different applications have different requirements of the steganography technique used. For example, some application may require absolute invisibility of the secret message to be hidden. This project intends to give an overview of image steganography, its uses and techniques. It also supports steganography in Audio Files. For a more secure approach, the project encrypts the message using secret key and then sends it to the receiver. The receiver than decrypts the message to get the original one