Research Topics Related to Steganography
The following topics are currently fields in which various colleges are offering courses. Below each description I have outlined the relevance to my project.
University of Virginia ECE 200, "Science of Information."
"Students in this class learn concepts through computer simulations on such topics as binary thresholding, encryption, filtering, steganography, and other areas."Relevance: covers steganography and other algorithm development topics.
Carnegie Mellon University 15-827, "Security and Cryptography."
"As use of the Internet has exploded, so has interest in security. This course will cover a range of topics on computer security including private and public key cryptography, authentication protocols, electronic commerce protocols, protocol design principles, logics of authentication, and security policy. More advanced topics include elliptic curve cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, anonymous cash, electronic voting, electronic auctions, watermarking, trust management, and formal tools (such as model checkers and theroem proving) for reasoning about security."Relevance: Covers watermarking, which is related to steganography, and other security and cryptography topics that are important to developers of steganography software.
A Research Paper on Steganography from Carnegie Mellon (PDF, requires Acrobat Reader)
Relevance: Has some advanced steganography algorithms (mostly beyond my comprehension).
Georgia Tech CS 6262, "Network Security."
Topics include "applications of cryptography; secret key and public key cryptographic algorithms; hash functions; authentication; security for electronic mail." Steganography is also discussed in the course.Relevance: Covers cryptography, which is the parent field of steganography, algorithms, and has a section on steganography as well.