Basic tips and tricks

Steganography comes from the Greek and literally means, "Covered or secret writing". Although related to

What is Steganography???
Steganography is Data Hiding

Steps in Steganography:
The data to be transmitted is hidden in a Cover Image.

The resulting image called the Stego Image is

transmitted.

The receiver then applies the inverse process to retrieve the data.

Steganography ( ) is the art and science of writing hidden messages.

~ Motivation Protection of Digital Media. Privacy of Information transmitted across the word wide web. ~ Goal To make the transmitted information invisible by embedding the information in a cover media. We try to enhance the security and the robustness of the information against attacks and Image processing techniques.

HISTORY
Earlier invisible ink was used to write information on pieces of paper Head of messengers were shaved so, a message could be written on it Wax tablet was peeled on which message was to be written & refilled Null cipher sent by the German embassy in World War I PRESIDENT'S EMBARGO RULING SHOULD HAVE IMMEDIATE NOTICE. GRAVE SITUATION AFFECTING INTERNATIONAL LAW. STATEMENT FORESHADOWS RUIN OF MANY NEUTRALS. YELLOW JOURNALS UNIFYING NATIONAL EXCITEMENT IMMENSELY.
(Taking the first letter in each word of message reveals the hidden text.) PERSHING SAILS FROM NY JUNE 1

History of Steganography: Through out history Steganography has been used to secretly communicate information between people. Some examples of use of Steganography in past times are: 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 urine, 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. 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 have off the messengers hair to see the secret message. Another method used in Greece was where someone would peel wax off a tablet that was covered in wax, write a message underneath the wax then reapply the wax. The recipient of the message would simply remove the wax from the tablet to view the message.

What is Steganography
Hiding the fact that information is being sent. Usually hiding the data inside other data. The data is passed in an unusual communication manner.

What is Encryption
Converting the data into non readable . (non perceivable) data Its a way to pass data so that it become safe. Any unauthorized person is not able to understand it

Steganographic Techniques

Genome Steganography Hiding in Text Hiding in the disk space Hiding data in software and circuitry Information Hiding in Images Hiding in network packets Hiding in music files & video

Sample Result

Steganography Recon
Niels Provos and Peter Honeyman @ University of Michigan
Tools used: StegDetect, StegBreak, Crawl, Disconcert 2 million images on E bay site scanned. Only 1 stego-image found

sovereigntime.jpg

"B-52 graveyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

Rename folder from the right click option........ Now press alt and press 255... press 255 frm the right side of the key bords i.e, Num pad. where only numbers are given.....

This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself... Open Microsoft Word and type =rand (200, 99) and hit enter.

1)Right Click on the desktop. Make a new folder 2)Now rename the folder with a blank space by holding ALT key and type 0160.

3)Now you have a folder without a name.

4)Right click on the folder>properties>customize. Click on change icon. 5)Scroll a bit, you should find some empty spaces, click on any one of them. Click ok

Create a new text file on your desktop Type

FreeMem=Space(64000000) in this file and save it as RAMcleaner.vbs

The Conclusion
The conclusion is that in this world there are still