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Audio steganography is a rapidly growing aspect of broad information protection. However, most of the designed steganographic algorithms are vulnerable to stegoanalysis and detecting the presence of hidden messages in stegoobjects. High hopes for solving this problem are associated with multilayer and hybrid secret message embedding techniques because such mixed techniques can withstand a wide range of attacks. The proposed article expands the knowledge of multilayer methods and introduces the concept of a hybrid method based on the embedding place in different domains of steganographic methods. A comparative analysis of a single-layer, operating in two domains, and a hybrid method that combines the two embedding methods, was made. The comparative analysis shows the advantage of hybrid methods over single-layer methods. The hybrid methods have the exciting potential of creating more flexible methods better suited to a specific purpose or improving one parameter at the expense of another. In addition, combined hybrid and multilayer methods are more secure due to the greater difficulty in extracting a secret message by an intruder.
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Pejaś, J., Cierocki, Ł. (2023). A New Approach to the Architecture of Hybrid and Multilayer Steganographic Methods. In: Saeed, K., Dvorský, J., Nishiuchi, N., Fukumoto, M. (eds) Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management. CISIM 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14164. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42823-4_7
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