What is Steganography?

Steganography is the technique of hiding secret data within an ordinary, non-secret, file or message in order to avoid detection; the secret data is then extracted at its destination. The use of steganography can be combined with encryption as an extra step for hiding or protecting data. The word steganography is derived from the Greek words steganos (meaning hidden or covered) and the Greek root graph (meaning to write).
Steganography can be used to conceal almost any type of digital content, including text, image, video or audio content; the data to be hidden can be hidden inside almost any other type of digital content. The content to be concealed through steganography -- called hidden text -- is often encrypted before being incorporated into the innocuous-seeming cover text file or data stream. If not encrypted, the hidden text is commonly processed in some way in order to increase the difficulty of detecting the secret content.

How does Steganography Works?

There are literally dozens of ways to hide messages, and each one works differently. But most steganography experts rely on the same principles to do their work.

Steganography relies on several pieces, including:

• => Payloads. What do you want to embed or hide?

• => Carriers. What file or asset will hide your payload?

• => Package. How will the carrier look or respond when buried with the payload?

• => Key. How will the recipient decode your message and find the payload?

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