Information Hiding using Bucket Steganography

Abstract

This paper describes bucket steganography-a data hiding technique in which secret message may be extracted from the carrier with standard software preinstalled in operating system, and with inconspicuous graphical applications, like GIMP, Paint or Photoshop. First, the carrier file should be presented in chosen base, for example hexadecimal, octal, etc. Then the user takes the screenshot of the listing and fill its background with bucket tool. In this way the secret message appears and may be read from unfilled regions of different color.