Review of Linguistic Text Steganographic Methods

Abstract

Steganography is a method of concealing confidential data in a cover file such that attacker cannot predict about clandestine data. Steganography exploit cover message, for example content, picture, sound, video record and so forth to conceal a mystery or secret message. Text Steganography is one of a procedure to conceal the one kind (text) of content data inside same type of content messages. Linguistic steganography is the language based steganographic scheme which proposes more advanced methods to hide the secret messages in text. Initially linguistic text steganographic techniques are developed only for the English language. But now days different regional languages are also used to hide the information like Hindi. This paper reviews the different linguistic text steganographic methods of hindi and English language.