Abstract
Steganography is the art of hiding messages inside an image file/Audio file or a Video file such that the very existence of the message is unknown to third party. Cryptography is used to encrypt the data so that it is unreadable by a third party. Keeping Secrets Secret is an application which combines both of the above mentioned techniques to embed Text document in an audio signal. A Text document is compressed and then embedded into the Audio file in order to achieve robustness and better performance. Then the users can easily and securely send the compressed data over the network. The major task of this application is to provide the user the flexibility of passing the information implementing the encryption standards as per the specification and algorithms proposed and store the information in a form that is undetectable in an Audio file. The Application will have a reversal process which de-embeds the data file from audio file and decrypts the data to its original format upon the proper request by the user. This application is developed using Java Programming Language and is compatible with windows environment.