A Hybrid Approach Towards Image Steganography Using LSB and Shannon – Fano Encoding Technique

Steganography is a method that may be used to conceal sensitive information within an image or in some other multimedia. Both steganography and cryptography offer communication an additional layer of protection. Steganography is utilized in certain sectors, but cryptography may be applied to various situations to hide information. The purpose of this work is to discuss an approach of data concealing with the idea of increasing the payload capacity by compressing the secret data using Shannon-Fano Encoding (SFE) without affecting the imperceptibility of the image.