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Introduction to Steganography

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Steganography Techniques for Digital Images

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With the expansion in digital-communication technologies and the rapid growth of network bandwidth, the Internet has turned out to be a commonly used channel for transmitting many documents—for instance, audio, video, image, and text—in digital form. Many practices have been offered and developed for providing the secure transmission of data. The focus of the current research is on the design of data-hiding techniques used for transmitting secret data where digital images are selected as the cover-media. This chapter has identified the problems in the present image-steganography schemes.

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Yahya, A. (2019). Introduction to Steganography. In: Steganography Techniques for Digital Images. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78597-4_1

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