The internet users are regularly increasing day by day. After the launching of the 4G or IMT-Advanced services, communication over internet increased drastically. People across all the communities like social, economical, business, financial, etc are doing communication or exchanging their valued documents over internet. Hence, the demand of securing these documents or hiding some secret message into another cover is also increased. As, Steganography is the art and science of hiding a secret message in another message, image, or video as cover, in such a way, which hides the existence of the communication. Its goal is to hide messages inside other harmless messages, or image and does not allow any enemy to even detect that there is a second message present. In this paper, we have presented an analysis on LSB based detection methods and current hiding strategies with color images. Many noticeable hiding strategies proposed by researchers are presented here, but more research is required with the objectives of achieving high embedding payload and less detectable against the modern detector SPAM.

Secret Message, Data Hiding, Steganography, Detection Method, Color Images, SPAM

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