e-Forensics steganography system for secret information retrieval

Steganography is the art and science of hiding information. This paper introduces eForensics as a novel technique for extracting secret information electronically encoded in most creative ways. We propose an e-Forensics system capable to detect (or extract) secret information using any generic steganalytic algorithm. The system is based on agent computing approach where the autonomic agent would traverse across several websites and detect any steganographic communication. If any such activity is detected it would report back to the concerned authority. Conceptual overview of the system, as well its design layout is presented. An illustrative example clarifies system’s functionality and performance. Keywords—Autonomic Agent, Steganography, Secret Information Hiding, Data Embedding, Stego-key, Data Extraction.