WEEK 3 FYP 1

Title: 

What is Steganography?

Objective: 

To find and research information about Steganography.

Content/Result: 

• Steganography is the art of passing information in a manner that the very existence of the message is unknown. Originally used to hide secret messages to avoid detection, steganography also serves as a method of protecting copyrights for digital works. 

• Stego, as it is often referred to, differs from it’s close relative, cryptography, in that with crypto, messages are garbled up so they are unreadable and make no coherent sense. However, the fact that a message was sent is known, whereas with the use of steganography, the sender is concealing the existence of a message. 

• Steganography has been given a boost in the internet age as governments attempt to regulate or prohibit the use of cryptography for personal privacy purposes.

•  There exist two types of materials in steganography; message and carrier. Message is the secret data that should be hidden and carrier is the material that takes the message in it.

• 3 types of Steganography which is 

Conclusion:
Steganography is process or method for hiding data/message inside another data/message. There are 3 types of steganography which is Image, Text and Audio. Every types of it have several methods to hiding the data.