Abstrait

A NEW METHOD FOR EMBEDDING DATA WITHIN AN IMAGE

Prof. Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay, Biswajita Datta, Debjit Chakrabarty,Aditi Majumdar, Srimanti Bhowmick

The growth of high speed computer networks and the Internet, in particular, has increased the ease of Information Communication. The cause for the development is also of the apprehension - use of digital formatted data. In comparison with Analog media, Digital media offers several distinct advantages such as high quality, easy editing, high fidelity copying, compression etc. But this type advancement in the field of data communication in other sense has hiked the fear of getting the data snooped at the time of sending it from the sender to the receiver. Information Security is becoming an inseparable part of Data Communication. In order to address this Information Security, Steganography plays an important role. Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message. This paper proposed a new method for embedding data within an image so that the image will look unchanged to human visual systems.