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Steganography—the practice of concealing messages within innocuous carriers—remains a vital complement to cryptography for achieving covert communication. This paper surveys contemporary digital steganographic methods, evaluates their robustness against modern steganalysis, and proposes practical recommendations for secure embedding in real-world systems. We categorize techniques by carrier type: image-based (LSB, transform-domain like DCT/DFT/WT), audio-based (LSB, phase-coding, spread-spectrum), video-based (frame-based and motion-vector embedding), and network/protocol steganography. For each category we describe typical embedding algorithms, capacity-visibility-resilience trade-offs, and common improvements (adaptive embedding, payload pre-processing, error correction, and content-aware selection). sten unblocked
