Abstract
Who could have thought that the digitization of electronic communication would unwittingly open gate for covert channel communication which is now being exploited for good as well as illicit motives by electronic and computer persons/agencies all over the world. Every now and then we come across new digitized ON and/or OFF-Line, information security products, enabling us to communicate without compromising our confidentiality, integrity and authorization. Among the various solutions proposed; Cryptography and Steganography having their origin from Greek, are the most promising. The purpose of cryptography is to eradicate the sense out of information thereby rendering it useless for an intruder. Steganography on the other hand, focuses on hiding the existence of information. These two, though opposite of each other, go well when used together as elaborated in the subsequent sections. This paper proposes an enhancement in existing steganographic techniques suggested and discussed respectively by Mohammad Shirali Shahreza (2005) 'A New Method for Steganography in HTML Files', In: Proceedings of IETA Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering, EIAE 2005, Springer, p. 247-251.and K. Bennett (2004), 'Linguistic Steganography: Survey, Analysis, and Robustness Concerns for Hiding Information in Text', Purdue University, CERIAS Tech. Report 2004-13, for hiding information inside HTML TAGs. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]