Paper Title
Data Hiding in Digital Images Using Stagnography Paradigm: State of the Art

Abstract
With the ever increasing pace of communication over internet and digital communication, there is great demand for secure transfer of information and data. The important data is always vulnerable to the attacks of hackers worldwide. In the present scenario stenography plays a vital role. It is techniques by which secret information can be hidden in any image or audio or video file which is being transferred over the communication channel. Least Significant Bit Steganography techniques are the commonly used data hiding techniques using images as cover image. This paper presents a state of the art of the data hiding techniques in grayscale image using LSB and its modified versions. Further a comparative analysis of the same is presented. Keywords- Stenography, spatial domain techniques, secret information, Least Significant Bit, cover image