Indiscernible Communication through ASCII Text Document/File (Communication in Veil)
Khan Farhan Rafat, Muhammad Sher · 2013
Internet has embarked comforting impact on people’s lives across the globe as personal tasks such as cash transactions, mails, fax, data storage or retrieval etc. are now preferably being done electronically using personal computers/cell phones/TABs etc. This, however, has also elevated issues vis-a-vis availability, legitimacy, and renunciation of information causing discomfort in information security field because the number of cases including copyright infringement, heavy financial loss on account of e-theft of credit cards, impersonation through hacking of social IDs etc. are on increase, and calls for their immediate remedy. Steganography – the art and science of oblivious communication – has emerged as an exciting research area for expert and naive academics now days to mitigate aforesaid security issues and is the prima facie of our research that focuses on evolving secure ASCII text-cover centric data hiding scheme for stealth communication.