International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Steganography is a secret Communication to hide the secret Data. It is an invisible communication that hides data like text, image, and audio, video etc .The secret message is inserted into the image files. The image files can use stego-key to hide the data and the resultant image is called as stego-image. This is most important for the internet users to share their secret data in an efficient manner. Steganography plays an important role in defence. Various steganographic techniques are analyzed and its pros and cons are highlighted in this paper.