International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security (IJCNIS)
IJCNIS Vol. 5, No. 12, 8 Oct. 2013
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Study and Analysis of Text Steganography Tools
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Author(s)
Indradip Banerjee
1,*
Souvik Bhattacharyya
2
Gautam Sanyal
1
Index Terms
Text Steganography, Text Steganalysis, Security, Cover Text, Stego Text
Abstract
"Maintain the security of the secret information", this words has been a great challenge in our day to day life. Sender can send messages regularly through a communication channel like Internet, draws the attention of third parties, hackers and crackers, perhaps causing attempts to break and expose the unusual messages. Steganography is a gifted region which is used for secured data transmission over any public media. Wide quantity of research work has been established by different researchers on steganography. Steganalysis is an art and science of detecting messages hidden using steganography. Some research work has also been remarked in the field of Steganalysis also. In this contribution, we have gone through steganalysis attack of some established text steganography tools.
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Indradip Banerjee, Souvik Bhattacharyya, Gautam Sanyal, "Study and Analysis of Text Steganography Tools", International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security(IJCNIS), vol.5, no.12, pp.45-52, 2013. DOI:10.5815/ijcnis.2013.12.06
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