A Novel Data Embedding Technique for Hiding Text in Video File using Steganography

Today’s internet applications require data to be transmitted in a secure manner. Data transmission in public communication system is not secure because of interception and improper manipulation by eavesdropper. So the solution for this problem is Steganography. That has to do with secure data transmission between a sender and a receiver; implementing Steganography is the best way. Steganography is hiding private or secret data within a carrier in an invisible manner, in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intend recipient. This paper focus on hiding text in a computer video file and to retrieve the hidden information. Generally Video files are collection of both images and audio. Hiding large amount of data in video is possible compare with others. Video Steganography deals with hiding secret data or information within a video. This can be done by using LSB technique.