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(@charlie-w)
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Hi guys.

I am computer forensics student waiting to start my final year.

I've posted a few things before about some ideas that I have had for my final year project and wanted to know get some feedback/suggestions about this.

I am interested in steganography, how it works and the complications behind it. I touched on it in one of my modules last year at university and would like to find out more about it. I have been in touch with my teacher and he said it could be a good idea to base my final year project on.

Do you think this would be a good topic to use? Does anyone have any ideas about more specific areas of steg that I could focus it on? Obviously for my project it would need to be aiming to answer a specific question relating to steg rather than just my own research about it overall.

If anyone has any experience using or looking at stegaography and could maybe recommend some areas that I could look into for my project that would be great. Ideally I would like to create something that would help the forensics world or be able to aid in forensic investigations. I am more interested in doing a report/dissertation for my project but again - all and any ideas are welcome.

Please post a reply, even if you just want to say whether you think it's a good idea or not - I would very much appreciate it!

Thanks.

 
Posted : 24/03/2015 10:33 pm
jaclaz
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I voted "no", let me try and explain why.

The "generic" field of steganography is a rather vast (and very complex) one and from the little I know of it, it seems to me like there is a lot of ongoing research at a level (without any offence intended of course) much higher than the one that is usually connected with graduate dissertations.

There are AFAIK way too many unuseful/unneeded/repetitive graduate dissertations that are more or less "history of steganography" or "introduction to steganography" containing very little more than a lot of citations from previous works on the matter.

On the other hand if you tackle something "new" belonging to "steganography", but that is within your current reach, you risk to focus on a very narrow or very specific "minuscule" aspect, something that while it may take you a lot of time and energy, will produce a dissertation with very little "added value".

The list of projects ideas here
http//www.forensicfocus.com/project-ideas
are there for a reason, they represent what the digital forensic pros believe to be useful for their work and that are considered tp be at a level suitable to a final year project/dissertation.

If I were you, I would choose a field that (while being not entirely unlike steganography) has a more general relevance and where a lot of work is still needed like file carving (after all it is still loosely about recognizing certain file patterns and make sense of them/recover info from them)

Of course just my 2 c. )

jaclaz

 
Posted : 24/03/2015 11:57 pm
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