Terminology

The following terminology as used in the discipline of steganography and steganalysis has been set forth over many years of compounding research[7,9,8]. As such, the following terminology will be used consistently within this research paper:

1.

Cover-medium - Data within which a message is to be hidden.

2.

Stego-medium - Data within which a message has been hidden.

3.

Message - Data that is or will be hidden within a stego-medium or cover-medium, respectively.

4.

Redundant Bits - Bits of data in a cover-medium that can be modified without compromising that medium's integrity.