A SURVEY PAPER ON SMS BASED STEGANOGRAPHY

ABSTRACT: After the advancement in mobile phone industry now mobile phones are available with huge variety of sensors, utility software, entertainment application and services like video conferencing and video call. Mobile phones has become ubiquitous and a general purpose device. SMS is one of the mostly used services in mobile phones throughout the world. Using this service, individuals can write and send to each other short messages and also binary pictures. On the one hand, information security is a critical issue in this digitalized world. For establishing hidden communications, a variety methods have been proposed for covert communications, among which steganography is a relatively new concept. As in mobile phones one can send text messages and binary picture messages both. In this paper, a survey work of all type of Steganographic techniques performed through mobile phone's SMS services esp. text steganography and image steganography and its future scope will be discussed. Most of these techniques are implemented on J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) platform