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Table of content :

Introduction 3

History Of Steganography 3

Steganography advantages and disadvantages 4

Types of Steganography 4

Hiding information inside pictures 5

Image Steganography 6

Example of image Steganography 6

Open Puff 7

SilentEye 8

Hiding using the Operating system 9

Conclusion 9

List of references 10

Introduction :

Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message. While commonly thought of as messages hidden in pictures it is not limited to just pictures, although this is one the common uses, but messages can be embedded in any number of digital media types. It can even be embedded into sound files.

This practice of  steganography is often called stego for short. Usually a steganographic message will appear to be something else: a picture, an article, a shopping list, or some other message - this is referred to as the cover text or in the case of digital file- the carrier.

It is important to understand that steganography is very different than cryptography and the two are often confused.  With cryptography, encryption...