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Agenda
Steganography

What is Steganography? History Steganography today

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Steganography tools

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Steganography Definition
Steganography
covered writing
Steganography is the process of hiding of
from the Greek word steganos meaning and the Greek word graphie meaning

a secret message within an ordinary message and extracting it at its destination

Anyone else viewing the message will fail
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Steganography - History
Greek history warning of invasion by

scrawling it on the wood underneath a wax tablet. To casual observers, the tablet appeared blank.
Both Axis and Allied spies during World

War II used such measures as invisible inks -- using milk, fruit juice or urine which darken when heated.
Invisible Ink is also a form of

steganography
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Steganography

The U.S. government is concerned about the

use of Steganography.

Common uses in include the disguising of

corporate espionage.

Its also a very good Anti-forensics

mechanism to mitigate the effectiveness of a forensics investigation

Child pornography
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Steganography
Modern digital steganography
data is encrypted then inserted and hidden, using a special

algorithm which may add and/or modify the contents of the file
This technique may simply append the data

to the file, or disperse it throughout

Carefully crafted programs apply the

encrypted data such that patterns appear normal.

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Steganography Carrier Files

Steganography Carrier Files
bmp jpeg gif wav mp3 Amongst others

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Steganography - Tools
Steganography Tools
Steganos S-Tools (GIF, JPEG) StegHide (WAV, BMP) Invisible Secrets (JPEG) JPHide Camouflage Hiderman Many others

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Important Requirement for Steganographic System

Security of the hidden

communication

size of the payload

Robustness against malicious and

unintentional attacks

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Detection of Steganographic Content/Countermeasures

The detection of steganographically encoded packages is called Steganalysis.
Visual Analysis tries to reveal the

presence of secret communication through inspection, either with the naked eye or with the assistance of a computer.

Statistical (Algorithmic) Analysis

reveals tiny alterations in an 3/14/12 image's statistical behavior