A HIGH DEGREE OF SECURITY Under NETWORK SECURITY AND PROTOCOLS
Steganography is any "technique of hiding secret messages within other media, so that to all eyes but those of the sender and intended receiver, no secret message appears to be present." This paper focuses on the more challenging problem of reliably hiding messages within vector data. Vector formats are used extensively by Geographic Information Systems. They use sequences of coordinates to represent points, lines, and regional boundaries on a map. Vector steganography is mainly used to protect intellectual property. It requires
more effort to produce GIS data,but once it is released in an electronic format, it's easy for somebody to copy it and re-use it without the developers permission. By "watermarking" vector data with a hidden copyright message or signature there exists the chance of detecting and demonstrating commercial re-use of that data.
