Information Hiding and Countermeasures

Information Hiding Technology has a long history. With the development of Digital Technology, it has become a newly evolved discipline and a hot research area. Since the first Information Hiding Workshop held in 1996,the technology has been widely applied to areas such as multimedia .signal processing and protection of software Intellectual Property,but the research work in secure communication is relatively fewer. Based on success of developing a steganography tool for communication, this article summarizes the current progress in the research of Information Hiding Technology systematically, and analyzes possible countermeasures against various Information Hiding techniques.