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Steganography and Steganalysis (in digital forensics): a Cybersecurity guide

Multimedia Tools and Applications volume 80, pages 5723–5771 (2021)Cite this article

Abstract

Steganography and steganalysis is a relatively new-fangled scientific discipline in security systems and digital forensics, respectively, but one that has matured greatly over the past two decades. In any specialism of human endeavour, it is imperative to periodically pause and review the state of the discipline for what has been achieved till date. This article scrutinizes where the discipline of steganography and steganalysis at this point in time in context to the common user and new researchers in terms of current trends. Also, what has been accomplished in order to critically examine what has been done well and what ought to be done better. The state-of-the-art techniques for steganography and steganalysis (image and video) have been deliberated for the last 5 years literature. Further, the paper also takes stock the dataset and tools available for multimedia steganography and steganalysis with the examples where steganography has been used in real-life. It is a corpus of the author’s opinion and the viewpoints of different other researchers and practitioners, working in this discipline. Additionally, experiments were done using image steganography techniques to analyse the recent trends. This survey is intended to provide a complete guide for common people and new researchers and scholars approaching this field, sight on the existing and the future of steganography and steganalysis.

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  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2082657.stm

  2. https://www.darkreading.com/risk/research-shows-image-based-threat-on-the-rise/d/d-id/1129071?

  3. https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/using-digital-steganography-to-protect-national-security-information-ian-barwise-m-s-cissp-ceh-cnda

  4. https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-mumbai-police-fail-to-crack-july-11-suspects-mail-1058716

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Dalal, M., Juneja, M. Steganography and Steganalysis (in digital forensics): a Cybersecurity guide. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 5723–5771 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09929-9

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