Image Steganography Image Steganography Least Significant Bit(s) (LSB) encoding Stealing 1 bit : 11111111 => 1111111_ Stealing 2 bits: 11111111 => 111111__ Stealing 3 bits: 11111111 => 11111___ Minor changes don't register in our senses 8 bit graphics can hold 1*n message bit per pixel 24 bit graphics can hold 3*n message bits per pixel Images that use lossy compression (JPG, etc) can hold less data. The 'one/three byte per pixel' rule doesn't apply. Data is stored by modifying repetitive bytes.