Noiseless Steganography

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CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

This chapter concludes the book. It summarizes the contributions, reports on the current status of the work, spells out what remains to be done until the final book defense, and finally highlights directions for future research.

14.1 Contributions

The main contribution of the book is the novel Noiseless Steganography (Nostega) Paradigm [32,35]. Unlike all other approaches, Nostega neither hides data in a noise nor produces noise rendering the generated cover noiseless. Instead, it camouflages messages in the form of unquestionable data in the generated cover employing either unaltered authenticated data or untraceable data, thus avoiding a wide variety of attacks. The concealment process of Nostega has no effect ...