A Unique Approach for Data Hiding Using Audio Steganography
Zohaib Hasan2014
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Abstract
The rapid development of multimedia and internet allows for wide distribution of digital media data. It becomes much easier to edit, modify and duplicate digital information. Besides that, digital documents are also easy to copy and distribute, therefore it will be faced by many threats. It is a big security and privacy issue, it become necessary to find appropriate rotation because of the significance, accuracy and sensitivity of the information. Steganography and Cryptography are considered as one of the techniques which are used to protect the important information, but both techniques have their pro's and con's. This paper aims to conquer their respective drawbacks and to achieve this we are using a double layer protection technique which is cryptography cum steganography approach.
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