scholarly journals Chaos-based Color Image Steganography Method Using 3 D Cat Map

2021 ◽  
pp. 3220-3227
Author(s):  
Sarab M. Hameed ◽  
Zuhair Hussein Ali ◽  
Ghadah K. AL-Khafaji ◽  
Safa Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Color Image ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Comparison Results ◽  
Information Hiding Capacity ◽  
High Level ◽  
Color Image Steganography

     Steganography is a technique to hide a secret message within a different multimedia carrier so that the secret message cannot be identified. The goals of steganography techniques include improvements in imperceptibility, information hiding, capacity, security, and robustness. In spite of numerous secure methodologies that have been introduced, there are ongoing attempts to develop these techniques to make them more secure and robust. This paper introduces a color image steganographic method based on a secret map, namely 3-D cat. The proposed method aims to embed data using a secure structure of chaotic steganography, ensuring better security. Rather than using the complete image for data hiding, the selection of the image band and pixel coordination is adopted, using the 3D map that produces irregular outputs for embedding a secret message randomly in the least significant bit (LSB) of the cover image. This increases the complexity encountered by the attackers. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated and the results reveal that the proposed method provides a high level of security through defeating various attacks, such as statistical attacks, with no detectable distortion in the stego-image. Comparison results ensure that the proposed method surpasses other existing steganographic methods regarding the Mean Square Error (MSE) and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio(PSNR).

An Improved Method for Combine (LSB and MSB) Based on Color Image RGB

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1B) ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Sally A. Mahdi ◽  
Maisa’a A. Khodher
Keyword(s):  
Color Image ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Measure Entropy

Image steganography is the art of hiding data into an image by using the secret key. This paper presents two techniques that combine the most significant bit (MSB) as well as the least significant bit (LSB) based on a color image (24bit for RGB). The presented study proposes a novel method to combine (LSB and MSB) bits based on check MSB values and replace bits from LSB with a secret message. The result of this proposed method that made not affect quality stego -image based on the resulting histogram that shows a match between the cover image and stego- image and more secure because not hidden in all image. The factors were used Mean Square Error (MSE), Compute Payload, in addition to Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). The PSNR’s rate is high and MSE is less. The result of this paper when applying on the different image gives high PSNR of 87.141 and less MSE of 0.00012 when inserting message 80 bits and reduction value PSNR of 72.023 and MSE of 0.0040 when inserting message 1200 bits and measure entropy is the same value for cover image and stego –image then this method is more security for the attacker.

A New Image Steganographic Approach for Secure Communication Based on LSB Replacement Method

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Darabkh ◽  
Iyad F. Jafar ◽  
Raed T. Al-Zubi ◽  
Mohammed Hawa
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Geometric Shape ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Replacement Method ◽  
Lsb Replacement

With the development of internet technologies and communication services, message transmissions over the internet still have to face all kinds of security problems. Hence, how to protect secret messages during transmission becomes a challenging issue for most of current researchers. It is worth mentioning that many applications in computer science and other related fields rely on steganography and watermarking techniques to ensure information safety during communication. Unlike cryptography that focuses on scrambling the secret message so that it cannot be understood, the main objective of steganography and watermarking is to communicate securely in such a way that the hidden data are not visible to the observer. In other words, it seeks for the imperceptibility of stego-images quality to an unintended party through embedding efficiently the secret message in a digital media such as image, video, or audio. In this paper, we propose a new steganographic method to embed the secret data inside a cover image based on least-significant-bit (LSB) replacement method. The embedding process predominantly concentrates on distributing the secret message inside one share of a color image to appear like a 3D geometric shape that is constructed according to well-analyzed geometric equations. The dimensions of the geometric shape are determined pursuant to the size of secret message. Data distribution process makes our method to be of a great interest as of being so difficult for the hackers or intruders to reconstruct the shape from stego-images, thereby the security is improved. Furthermore, we compare the performance of our approach with two other relevant approaches in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and payload. The contribution of our approach was immensely impressive.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.44.3.8949

scholarly journals High Security and Capacity of Image Steganography for Hiding Human Speech Based on Spatial and Cepstral Domains

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Yazen A. Khaleel
Keyword(s):  
Speech Signal ◽  
Vocal Tract ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Image Steganography ◽  
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Original Speech

A new technique of hiding a speech signal clip inside a digital color image is proposed in this paper to improve steganography security and loading capacity. The suggested technique of image steganography is achieved using both spatial and cepstral domains, where the Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) are adopted, as very efficient features of the speech signal. The presented technique in this paper contributes to improving the image steganography features through two approaches. First is to support the hiding capacity by the usage of the extracted MFCCs features and pitches extracted from the speech signal and embed them inside the cover color image rather than directly hiding the whole samples of the digitized speech signal. Second is to improve the data security by hiding the secret data (MFCCs features) anywhere in the host image rather than directly using the least significant bits substitution of the cover image. At the recovering side, the proposed approach recovers these hidden features and using them to reconstruct the speech waveform again by inverting the steps of MFCCs extraction to recover an approximated vocal tract response and combine it with recovered pitch based excitation signal. The results show a peak signal to noise ratio of 52.4 dB of the stego-image, which reflect a very good quality and a reduction ratio of embedded data to about (6%–25%). In addition, the results show a speech reconstruction degree of about 94.24% correlation with the original speech signal.

scholarly journals Steganography using Spatial Domain Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3369-3373
Keyword(s):  
Data Security ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Spatial Domain ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Redundant Data

In present world data transfer using the internet is growing. It is very easy and fast way to transfer information like confidential documents, economic transactions, business applications and other covert information over internet. With the advent and growth of internet, people are more concerned about security of information. Data Security is important while data is transferred over internet because any illegal user can access important and private data also make it worthless. Research in data security area will help government agencies, military organization and private companies to securely transmit their confidential data over internet. From past few years various steganography techniques have been developed to hide secret message using various multimedia objects having large amount of redundant data to support steganography. In this paper introduction about steganography, related concepts and implementation of commonly used spatial domain techniques like LSB(Least Significant Bit Technique) with modulus, PVD(Pixel Value Difference) with LSB replacement and adaptive data hiding over edges with LSB are considered. It is observed(while visual, statistical analysis and experiments were carried out) with benchmark cover and stego objects that embedding same amount of secret data in each pixel leads to more visible distortions in a stego image because all pixels do not bear same amount of changes and this effect is more observed in smooth area then edges. Improving stego image imperceptibility and adjusting hiding capacity adaptively are major related research challenges about spatial domain techniques.

Data Hiding Based on Improved Exploiting Modification Direction Method and Huffman Coding

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali M. Ahmad ◽  
Ghazali Sulong ◽  
Amjad Rehman ◽  
Mohammed Hazim Alkawaz ◽  
Tanzila Saba
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Huffman Coding ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Secret Code ◽  
Exploiting Modification Direction ◽  
Emd Method

AbstractThe rapid growth of covert activities via communications network brought about an increasing need to provide an efficient method for data hiding to protect secret information from malicious attacks. One of the options is to combine two approaches, namely steganography and compression. However, its performance heavily relies on three major factors, payload, imperceptibility, and robustness, which are always in trade-offs. Thus, this study aims to hide a large amount of secret message inside a grayscale host image without sacrificing its quality and robustness. To realize the goal, a new two-tier data hiding technique is proposed that integrates an improved exploiting modification direction (EMD) method and Huffman coding. First, a secret message of an arbitrary plain text of characters is compressed and transformed into streams of bits; each character is compressed into a maximum of 5 bits per stream. The stream is then divided into two parts of different sizes of 3 and 2 bits. Subsequently, each part is transformed into its decimal value, which serves as a secret code. Second, a cover image is partitioned into groups of 5 pixels based on the original EMD method. Then, an enhancement is introduced by dividing the group into two parts, namely k1 and k2, which consist of 3 and 2 pixels, respectively. Furthermore, several groups are randomly selected for embedding purposes to increase the security. Then, for each selected group, each part is embedded with its corresponding secret code by modifying one grayscale value at most to hide the code in a (2ki + 1)-ary notational system. The process is repeated until a stego-image is eventually produced. Finally, the χ2 test, which is considered one of the most severe attacks, is applied against the stego-image to evaluate the performance of the proposed method in terms of its robustness. The test revealed that the proposed method is more robust than both least significant bit embedding and the original EMD. Additionally, in terms of imperceptibility and capacity, the experimental results have also shown that the proposed method outperformed both the well-known methods, namely original EMD and optimized EMD, with a peak signal-to-noise ratio of 55.92 dB and payload of 52,428 bytes.

Multilevel Secure Digital Image Steganography Framework Using Random Function and Advanced Encryption Standard

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 4812-4825
Author(s):  
Mohsin N. Srayyih Almaliki
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Random Function ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Image Steganography ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Preparation Phase ◽  
Noise Ratio

One of the crucial aspects of processes and methodologies in the information and communication technology era is the security of information. The security of information should be a key priority in the secret exchange of information between two parties. In order to ensure the security of information, there are some strategies which are used, and they include steganography and cryptography. With cryptography, the secret message is converted into unintelligible text, but the existence of the secret message is noticed, nonetheless, steganography involves hiding the secret message in a way that its presence cannot be noticed. In this paper, a new secure image steganography framework which is known as an adaptive stego key LSB (ASK-LSB) framework is proposed. The construction of the proposed framework was carried out in four phases with the aim of improving the data-hiding algorithm in cover images by using capacity, image quality, and security. To achieve this, the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) of the steganography framework was maintained. The four phases began with the image preparation phase, followed by the secret message preparation phase, embedding phase and finally extraction phase. The secure image steganography framework that is proposed in this study is based on a new adaptive of least significant bit substitution method, combination random function, and encryption method. In the proposed work, the secret bits are inserted directly or inversely, thereby enhancing the imperceptibility and complexity of the process of embedding. Results from the experiment reveal that the algorithm has better image quality index, peak signal-to-noise ratio, and payload used in the evaluation of the stego image.

An Improved ECG Steganography Using Integer Wavelet Transform and Offset Coefficient with LSB Substitution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Yu Yang ◽  
Wen-Fong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Computation Time ◽  
Integer Wavelet Transform ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Offset Coefficient ◽  
Integer Wavelet

Abstract In this work, we present an improved steganography for electrocardiogram (ECG) hosts to solve the issues of existing ECG steganographic methods, which have less hiding capacity and insufficient signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)/ peak SNR (PSNR). Based on the integer wavelet transform (IWT) domain, sensitive (or private) data such as patients’ data and personal information can be efficiently embedded in an ECG host via the IWT coefficient adjustment and the least significant bit (LSB) technique. Simulations confirmed that the SNR/ PSNR, and payload of the proposed method outperform those of existing techniques. In addition, the proposed method is capable of resisting attacks, such as cropping, Gaussian noise-addition inversion, scaling, translation, and truncation attacks from third parties (or adversaries). Due to the fast computation time, the proposed method can be employed in portable biometric devices or wearable electronics.

scholarly journals Analysis of Least Significant Bit Method Using Sequential Encoding-Decoding in Steganography Digital Image

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 201-205
Author(s):  
Nurmi Hidayasari ◽  
Febi Yanto
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Maximum Size ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Check Size ◽  
Image Histogram ◽  
Hide Data ◽  
Histogram Testing

The method of steganography commonly used to hide data or information is Least Significant Bit (LSB) method. One of the relevant research is LSB using sequential Encoding - Decoding by David Pipkorn and Preston Weisbrot. In this research, an analysis of the LSB method using Sequential Encoding - Decoding by doing some testing. The tests are on the aspect of message security using tools StegSpy and enhanced LSB algorithm, testing on image quality by calculating the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) value and see the image histogram, testing on robustness of message by doing some image processing operations on stego image, like cropping, rotating, and etc, and then testing on capacity to check size of cover image and stego image and calculates the maximum size of data that can be hidden. From the testing process, we know that there are deficiencies in the aspects of security, robustness and capacity of a message. And then in this research we try to change the location of messages that are hidden in the image bits, which previous research used the 8th bit of each bytes, changed to the 7th bit. To be able to correct deficiencies in the security aspect. After repairing and testing like before, obtained better results in the security aspect. This can be seen from the image of the enhanced LSB algorithm process, the message is not detected, but unfortunately the image quality is reduced, with the low PSNR value generated.

scholarly journals Crypto-Steganographic Method to Protect Secret Messages

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 46-61
Author(s):  
Mohamad Tariq Barakat ◽  
Rushdi Abu Zneit ◽  
Ziad A. Alqadi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Image ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Color Images ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Private Key ◽  
Message Length ◽  
Digital Color Images

Multiple methods are used to hide secret messages in digital color images, and the most important and most common is the least significant bit (LSB) method. The LSB method is a known and exposed method, and anyone with programming experience can retrieve the secret message embedded in the digital image. In this paper research we will add some enhancements to improve the security level of LSB method to protect the embedded secret message from being hacked. A simple method of secret message cryptography will be used to encrypt the secret message before bedding it using LSB method. The method will be based on using color image as an image_key; this image_key will be resized to generate the needed secret private key used to encrypt-decrypt secret message. The length and the contents of the generated private key will dynamically change depending on the message length and the selected image_key. The selected image_key will be kept in secret without transmission and will be known only by the sender and receiver and it can be changed any time when needed. The proposed crypto_steganographic method will be implemented to show how it will increase the level o secret message protection.

scholarly journals Information Hiding using LSB Technique based on Developed PSO Algorithm

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wisam Abed Shukur ◽  
Khalid Kadhim Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Information Hiding ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Pso Algorithm ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Carrier Medium ◽  
Lsb Technique ◽  
Lsb Substitution

<p>Generally, The sending process of secret information via the transmission channel or any carrier medium is not secured. For this reason, the techniques of information hiding are needed. Therefore, steganography must take place before transmission. To embed a secret message at optimal positions of the cover image under spatial domain, using the developed particle swarm optimization algorithm (Dev.-PSO) to do that purpose in this paper based on Least Significant Bits (LSB) using LSB substitution. The main aim of (Dev. -PSO) algorithm is determining an optimal paths to reach a required goals in the specified search space based on disposal of them, using (Dev.-PSO) algorithm produces the paths of a required goals with most efficient and speed. An agents population is used in determining process of a required goals at search space for solving of problem. The (Dev.-PSO) algorithm is applied to different images; the number of an image which used in the experiments in this paper is three. For all used images, the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) value is computed. Finally, the PSNR value of the stego-A that obtained from blue sub-band colo is equal (44.87) dB, while the stego-B is equal (44.45) dB, and the PSNR value for the stego-C is (43.97)dB, while the vlue of MSE that obtained from the same color sub-bans is (0.00989), stego-B equal to (0.01869), and stego-C is (0.02041). Furthermore, our proposed method has ability to survive the quality for the stego image befor and after hiding stage or under intended attack that used in the existing paper such as Gaussian noise, and salt &amp; pepper noise.</p>

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