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1 Preamble:
In an ideal world we would all be able to openly send encrypted email or files to each other with no fear of reprisals. However there are often cases when this is not possible, either because you are working for a company that does not allow encrypted email or perhaps the local government does not approve of encrypted communication (a reality in some parts of the world). This is where steganography can come into play. In digital steganography, we hide sensitive data inside a cover medium, mostly a multimedia file like an image or audio. Steganography offers great potential for securing of data copyright, and detection of infringers. The goal of SteganoGraptor is to provide a means for embedding a message file (text or binary) inside a multimedia file like a Bitmap. A major feature is that it does that in such manner as to avoid detection by statistical analysis of the output stegoobject, which is a whole science in itself, termed as Steganalysis.

In this project, we undertake the design of a software tool that implements Steganographic techniques on common multimedia format files like Bitmaps (BMP) and Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). As Kuhn puts it: ``The goal of steganography is to hide messages inside other harmless messages in a way that does not allow any enemy to even detect that there is a second secret message present.'' For ensuring that the message remains imperceptible to a casual viewer as well as enemies who try to break our object by analysing it using statistical methods, we use following methods: Randomised pixel alteration. Using entry-level encryption with a password provided by the user. The main problem of sending sensitive information over Internet is that unauthorized person can access on information and the person can misuse the information. If we change the original from of data or hide data in any medium, we can prevent viewing of data from unauthorized person

The main objective of this project is construct an effective tool for hiding text in image, thereby protecting the data from unauthorized or unwanted viewing. Why is the particular topic chosen? The primary reason for selecting Steganography among the list of possible project topics was due to the unfamiliarity of the word that twigged an interest in the subject. Another reason for researching the topic was after reading an online article titled Terror groups hide behind Web encryption that claims terrorists and, in particular, Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida network, may be using Steganography to communicate with each other in planning terrorist attacks. It is thought that images with hidden messages are placed on bulletin boards or dead drops for other terrorists to pick up and retrieve hidden messages. Thus far, this supposition has yet to be proven.

About Stenography

What is Steganography?
Steganography is the science of hiding information. Whereas the goal of cryptography is to make data unreadable by a third party, the goal of steganography is to hide the data from a third party. Steganography is defined as the science or even possibly art of hiding likely critical information within other, seemingly benign information. To do this, unused, useless, redundant, and/or unnecessary bits of the original file are replaced with bits of the critical information. The point of steganography is to prevent the detection of information leakage, not encrypt data. However, there is nothing stopping a user, malicious or otherwise from first encrypting a secret message and then embedding it inside of another harmless information. The process only deals with embedding one bit stream (the hidden information) inside of another bit stream. Either bit stream can be of any form. However, steganography is frequently used in conjunction with cryptography. In one method, the plain text would first be