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What is Image Steganography

Chapter 21
Handbook of Research on Threat Detection and Countermeasures in Network Security
The art or practice of concealing a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file.
Published in Chapter:
Security in Digital Images: From Information Hiding Perspective
Mohammed A. Otair (Amman Arab University, Jordan)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6583-5.ch021
Abstract
Due to the swift growth of the using of the digital multimedia in the internet these days, the security in digital images has become a very important issue. Lately, significant attentions are given by many researchers in the field of the security for digital images, and several image encryption techniques have been developed to improve the security levels of these images. Different techniques can be applied to protect intellectual property rights for digital images and prohibit illegal copying. The aim of this chapter is to introduce the most important techniques that have been developed to implement the security in digital images such as digital watermarking and image steganography.
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