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- Title
New LSB-based colour image steganography method to enhance the efficiency in payload capacity, security and integrity check.
- Authors
Cem kasapbaşi, Mustafa; Elmasry, Wisam
- Abstract
Steganography is the technique for hiding information within a carrier file so that it is imperceptible for unauthorized parties. In this study, it is intended to combine many techniques to gather a new method for colour image steganography to obtain enhanced efficiency, attain increased payload capacity, posses integrity check and security with cryptography at the same time. Proposed work supports many different formats as payload. In the proposed method, the codeword is firstly formed with secret data and its CRC-32 checksum, then the codeword is compressed by Gzip just before encrypting it by AES, and it is finally added to encrypted header information for further process and then embedded into the cover image. Embedding the encrypted data and header information process utilizes Fisher-Yates Shuffle algorithm for selecting next pixel location. To hide one byte, different LSB (least significant bits) of all colour channels of the selected pixel is exploited. In order to evaluate the proposed method, comparative performance tests are carried out against different spatial image steganographic techniques using some of the well-known image quality metrics. For security analysis, histogram, enhanced LSB and Chi-square analyses are carried out. The results indicate that with the proposed method has an improved payload capacity, security and integrity check for common problems of simple LSB method. Moreover, it has been shown that the proposed method increases the visual quality of the stego image when compared to other studied methods, and makes the secret message difficult to be discovered.
- Subjects
CRYPTOGRAPHY; ROCKET payloads; INTEGRITY; ATOMIC emission spectroscopy; IMAGE quality analysis
- Publication
Sādhanā: Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2018, Vol 43, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
0256-2499
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12046-018-0848-4