Steganography Literature Survey, Classification and Comparative Study

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See, stats, and : https : / / www . researchgate . net / publication / 308663229 Steganography , Classification Article DOI : 10 . 5120 / cae2016652384 CITATION 1 READS 903 3 : Some : Multicast secure Alaa Minoufiya 2 SEE Gamal Faculty 64 SEE Ayman - Sayed Menoufia 87 SEE All - Sayed . The . ABSTRACT Transmitting confidential images between two channels suffer from hacking . Therefore , protecting confidentiality has become a very essential issue . Recently , several methods are developed to protect important information . The main idea is based on embedding important information in multimedia carrier such as : text , image , audio , and video . The developed methods may be classified as steganography and watermarking . Steganography aims to embed huge amount of secret data in multimedia carrier while watermarking aims to hid small amount of secret data in multimedia carrier . This paper first presents a literature survey of information hiding , then classifies the proposed methods , and finally introduces a comparative study between the different methods .