Research Paper on Enhancing Data Compression Rate Using Steganography

In this paper, description of a compression algorithm based on steganography has been narrated. The compression algorithm has been used to develop an application which will help the users to hide large size text documents inside small size images. Maximum bits to be hidden per pixel can be increased to eight with the help of the developed compression application. After hiding the data inside an image, there appears to be no visible distortion at all. Also the application is compatible with all the documents and image formats. The developed application automatically converts the output stego image in bmp format. Keywordssteganography, cryptography , LSB, embedding, extraction, secret key, compression.