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STEGANOGRAPHY
(A new technique to hide information within image file)

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SYNOPSIS

STEGANOGRAPHY
(A new technique to hide information within image file)

Submitted by

Mr. Atanu Maity

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

of

MCA (Master of Computer Application)

IN

MUMBAI

XXX Engineering College

XXXXXX University : XXXXX - 400001

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ABSTRACT

Steganography is the art of hiding the fact that communication is taking place, by hiding
information in 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 a large variety of steganography techniques some are
more complex than others and all of them have respective strong and weak points. Different
applications may require absolute invisibility of the secret information, while others require
a large secret message to be hidden. This project report intends to give an overview of image
steganography, its uses and techniques. It also attempts to identify the requirements of a
good steganography algorithm and briefly reflects on which steganographic techniques are
more suitable for which applications.

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INTRODUCTION

One of the reasons that intruders can be successful is the most of the information they
acquire from a system is in a form that they can read and comprehend. Intruders may reveal
the information to others, modify it to misrepresent an individual or organization, or use it
to launch an attack. One solution to this problem is, through the use of steganography.
Steganography is a technique of hiding information in digital media. In contrast to
cryptography, it is not to keep others from knowing the hidden information but it is to keep
others from thinking that the information even exists.

Steganography become more important as more people join the cyberspace revolution.
Steganography is the art of concealing information in ways that prevents the detection of
hidden messages. Stegranography include an array of secret communication methods that
hide the message from being seen or discovered.

Due to advances in ICT, most of information is kept electronically. Consequently, the

security of information has become a fundamental issue. Besides cryptography,
streganography can be employed to secure information. In cryptography, the message or
encrypted message is embedded in a digital host before passing it through the network, thus
the existence of the message is unknown. Besides hiding data for confidentiality, this
approach of information hiding can be extended to copyright protection for digital media:
audio, video and images.

The growing possibilities of modern communications need the special means of security
especially on computer network. The network security is becoming more important as the
number of data being exchanged on the internet increases. Therefore, the confidentiality
and data integrity are requires to protect against unauthorized access and use. This has
resulted in an explosive growth of the field of information hiding

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Information hiding is an emerging research area, which encompasses applications such as

copyright protection for digital media, watermarking, fingerprinting, and steganography.

In watermarking applications, the message contains information such as owner

identification and a digital time stamp, which usually applied for copyright protection.

Fingerprint, the owner of the data set embeds a serial number that uniquely identifies
the user of the data set. This adds to copyright information to makes it possible to trace any
unauthorized used of the data set back to the user.

Steganography hide the secrete message within the host data set and presence
imperceptible and is to be reliably communicated to a receiver. The host data set is
purposely corrupted, but in a covert way, designed to be invisible to an information analysis.

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SYNOPSIS

Project Name: STEGANOGRAPHY

Project Members:

This project is done in a group of two people. Project members are.

1. Atanu Maity
2. Prabha Choudhary

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What is Steganography?

Steganography is the practice of hiding private or sensitive information within something

that appears to be nothing out to the usual. Steganography is often confused with
cryptology because the two are similar in the way that they both are used to protect
important information. The difference between two is that steganography involves hiding
information so it appears that no information is hidden at all. If a person or persons views
the object that the information is hidden inside of he or she will have no idea that there is
any hidden information, therefore the person will not attempt to decrypt the information.

What steganography essentially does is exploit human perception, human senses are not
trained to look for files that have information inside of them, although this software is
available that can do what is called Steganography. The most common use of steganography
is to hide a file inside another file.

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History of Steganography:

Through out history Steganography has been used to secretly communicate information
between people.

Some examples of use of Steganography is past times are:

1. During World War 2 invisible ink was used to write information on pieces of paper
so that the paper appeared to the average person as just being blank pieces of paper.
Liquids such as milk, vinegar and fruit juices were used, because when each one of
these substances are heated they darken and become visible to the human eye.
2. In Ancient Greece they used to select messengers and shave their head, they would
then write a message on their head. Once the message had been written the hair was
allowed to grow back. After the hair grew back the messenger was sent to deliver the
message, the recipient would shave off the messengers hair to see the secrete message.
3. Another method used in Greece was where someone would peel wax off a tablet that
was

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Why This Steganography?

This technique is chosen, because this system includes not only imperceptibility but also un-
delectability by any steganolysis tool.

Project Scope:

This project is developed for hiding information in any image file. The scope of the project is
implementation of steganography tools for hiding information includes any type of
information file and image files and the path where the user wants to save Image and
extruded file.

Methodology:

User needs to run the application. The user has two tab options – encrypt and decrypt. If
user select encrypt, application give the screen to select image file, information file and
option to save the image file. If user select decrypt, application gives the screen to select only
image file and ask path where user want to save the secrete file.

This project has two methods – Encrypt and Decrypt.

In encryption the secrete information is hiding in with any type of image file.

Decryption is getting the secrete information from image file.

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Software Requirements:

 .NET Framework 3.5

Hardware Requirements:

Processor: Preferably 1.0 GHz or Greater.

RAM : 512 MB or Greater.

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Encryption Process

IMAGE FILE INFORMATION FILE

BMP FILE

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Decryption Process

BMP FILE

INFORMATION FILE IMAGE FILE

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Limitations of the Software:

This project has an assumption that is both the sender and receiver must have shared some
secret information before imprisonment. Pure steganography means that there is none prior
information shared by two communication parties.

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Summary

Steganography is a really interesting subject and outside of the mainstream cryptography

and system administration that most of us deal with day after day.

Steganography can be used for hidden communication. We have explored the limits of
steganography theory and practice. We printed out the enhancement of the image
steganography system using LSB approach to provide a means of secure communication. A
stego-key has been applied to the system during embedment of the message into the cover
image.

This steganography application software provided for the purpose to how to use any type of
image formats to hiding any type of files inside their. The master work of this application is
in supporting any type of pictures without need to convert to bitmap, and lower limitation
on file size to hide, because of using maximum memory space in pictures to hide the file.

Since ancient times, man has found a desire in the ability to communicate covertly. The
recent explosion of research in watermarking to protect intellectual property is evidence that
steganography is not just limited to military or espionage applications. Steganography, like
cryptography, will play an increasing role in the future of secure communication in the
“digital world”.

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Bibliography

Websites
Following websites are referring to create this project reports.

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Following books and ebook are used to complete this project reports.

 Mastering C# (Paperback)
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 .NET Black Book (Paperback)
 Professional C#, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
 Professional ASP.NET (Paperback)
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 MCAD/MCSE/MCDBA Self-Paced Training Kit: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Design
and Implementation, Exam 70-229, Second Edition

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