scholarly journals Image in Image Steganography based on modified Advanced Encryption Standard and Lest Significant Bit Algorithms

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
Aymen Mudheher Badr ◽  
Mohamed layth Talal ◽  
Ghassan Sabeh

Because the big grown of the digital market and the growing demand for protection to data and information which transmitted through the Internet. Steganography is the art of embedding, hiding information into different digital media, it was the main reason to increase its importance in the exponential development of the secret communication of computer and digital cloud users over the internet. There are a lot of techniques and different ways to achieve hiding data. Usually, the data embedding is obtained in communication such as image, text, voice or any multimedia content for copyright and also in military communication for authentication and many other different purposes. In this paper, we protected the information in two ways: Encryption and Steganography. The basic idea is to present a method that encrypted the message firstly by using The AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) it is a symmetric-key encryption each of these ciphers it has 128-bit the size to block, and size keys of 128, 192 and 256 bits.  Secondly, hide that encrypted message in color cover image in the Least Significant Bit (LSB) to image’s frame with (.bmp, .jpg) extensions. Our scheme is to enhance the ability of LSB algorithm to include the storage of information and images encoded and intangible sense of human vision. That two methods to increased together the security attend any attack.

Author(s):  
Musa. M. Yahaya ◽  
Aminat Ajibola

Recently, the rate of data transfer over the internet globally has increased and this called for more data security as security of data is of great concern for individuals as well as business owners. Cryptography and steganography are two major key players for data security technique. Cryptography is use to perform encryption on the secrete message while steganography hides the secrete message in digital media, image in this regards. This paper employed these two techniques using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for the cryptography and Least Significant Bit (LSB) for the steganography. Combining the two algorithms ensured data integrity, data security, and flexibility. The changes in the secrete message carrier (Stego) is insignificant and is often not noticeable by the nicked eyes, thus this make the interception of the message often difficult by intruder.


Author(s):  
Khoerul Umam

The spread of digital media on the internet was very broad, fast, and cannot be monitored in a structured manner about what media has been uploaded and distributed on the internet network. The spread of digital media like this was very difficult to detect whether the media that shared was privately owned or that of others that is re-shared by media theft or digital media piracy. One step to overcome the theft of digital works is to give them a watermark, which is an identity that is placed on top of the work. However, this is still considered unsafe because the identity attached can be cut and manipulated again until it is not visible. In addition, the use of Steganography method to hide messages in an image can still be manipulated by adding messages continuously so that it accumulates and damages the original owner of the image. In this article, the author provides a solution called Digital Watermarking, a step of encrypting the data of the original owner of the work and putting it into the image of his work. This watermark cannot be seen clearly, but actually in the media there is encrypted data with a strong Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) method. As a result, a tool that can improve the security of media owner data by combining the AES and Steganogaphy methods in the formation of new media that cannot be changed anymore. So, when the media is stolen and used by others and has been edited, the owner's personal data can never be changed.


Author(s):  
Meenakshi S Arya ◽  
Meenu Rani ◽  
Charndeep Singh Bedi

<p>With the intrusion of internet into the lives of every household and terabytes of data being transmitted over the internet on daily basis, the protection of content being transmitted over the internet has become an extremely serious concern. Various measures and methods are being researched and devised everyday to ensure content protection of digital media. To address this issue of content protection, this paper proposes an RGB image steganography based on sixteen-pixel differencing with n-bit Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution. The proposed technique provides higher embedding capacity without sacrificing the imperceptibility of the host data. The image is divided into 4×4 non overlapping blocks and in each block the average difference value is calculated. Based on this value the block is classified to fall into one of four levels such as, lower, lower-middle, higher-middle and higher. If block belongs to lower level then 2-bit LSB substitution is used in it. Similarly, for lower-middle, higher-middle and higher level blocks 3, 4, and 5 bit LSB substitution is used. In our proposed method there is no need of pixel value readjustment for minimizing distortion. The experimental results show that stego-images are imperceptible and have huge hiding capacity.</p>


Author(s):  
Meenakshi S Arya ◽  
Meenu Rani ◽  
Charndeep Singh Bedi

<p>With the intrusion of internet into the lives of every household and terabytes of data being transmitted over the internet on daily basis, the protection of content being transmitted over the internet has become an extremely serious concern. Various measures and methods are being researched and devised everyday to ensure content protection of digital media. To address this issue of content protection, this paper proposes an RGB image steganography based on sixteen-pixel differencing with n-bit Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution. The proposed technique provides higher embedding capacity without sacrificing the imperceptibility of the host data. The image is divided into 4×4 non overlapping blocks and in each block the average difference value is calculated. Based on this value the block is classified to fall into one of four levels such as, lower, lower-middle, higher-middle and higher. If block belongs to lower level then 2-bit LSB substitution is used in it. Similarly, for lower-middle, higher-middle and higher level blocks 3, 4, and 5 bit LSB substitution is used. In our proposed method there is no need of pixel value readjustment for minimizing distortion. The experimental results show that stego-images are imperceptible and have huge hiding capacity.</p>


Author(s):  
Samir Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Payal Bose ◽  
Vishal Goyel

In today&rsquo;s digital media data communication over the internet increasing day by day. Therefore the data security becomes the most important issue over the internet. With the increase of data transmission, the number of intruders also increases. That&rsquo;s the reason it is needed to transmit the data over the internet very securely. Steganography is a popular method in this field. This method hides the secret data with a cover medium in a way so that the intruders cannot predict the existence of the data. Here a steganography method is proposed which uses a video file as a cover medium. This method has five main steps. First, convert the video file into video frames. Then a particular frame is selected for embedded the secret data. Second, the Least Significant Bit (LSB) Coding technique is used with the double key security technique. Third, an 8 characters password verification process. Fourth, reverse the encrypted video. Fifth, signature verification process to verify the encryption and decryption process. These five steps are followed by both the encrypting and decrypting processes.


Cloud Computing has made it possible to provide individuals as well as organizations with a utility that is costeffective. It empowers businesses by delivering these services using the internet. Files can be shared through the cloud. These files may contain sensitive information that needs to be kept hidden from anonymous users. This is done using cryptographic algorithms. High level of security can be provided using hybrid cryptography to encrypt the data. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) are the symmetric key encryption algorithms used to secure. An asymmetric key encryption algorithm, Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) helps in providing a hybrid cryptography model. The security of the key generated can be further enhanced using image steganography method Least Significant Bit (LSB). These issues regarding the security and its challenges will be addressed in this paper and also analyse the measures to handle it.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dian Novianto ◽  
Yohanes Setiawan

<p align="center"><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>There are several security aspects of the data that must be maintained, such as: authentication, integrity, non repudiation, authority, confidentialty, privacy and access control. One of the vulnerable parts of data security is when sending data to the destination. At the time of delivery, tapping of data can occur, so that people who are not entitled to get that information can find out. Therefore, an information needs to be secured so that only people who have access rights can know or get that information. And to maintain the confidentiality of the information, one of the ways is to insert the data into other objects, so that other people do not realize if the object contains important data or information. This hiding method is also known as steganography, and cryptography is added to strengthen the security of the data, that is a science and art to maintain the confidentiality of the message by encoding it in a form that is incomprehensible. The method used in steganography is Least Significant Bit (LSB), the algorithm used in cryptography is the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and the software development method used is prototype. The results of this study are all aspects of data security can be achieved, including when passing through the process of sending data through media such as the internet.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keyword: </em></strong><em>Steganography, Criptography, Prototype.</em></p><p align="center"><strong><em>Abstrak</em></strong></p><p><em>Ada beberapa aspek keamanan data yang harus dijaga, seperti: otentikasi, integritas, non repudiation, otoritas, kerahasiaan, privasi, dan kontrol akses. Salah satu bagian yang rentan dari keamanan data adalah ketika mengirim data ke tujuan. Pada saat pengiriman, penyadapan data dapat terjadi, sehingga orang yang tidak berhak mendapatkan informasi tersebut dapat mengetahuinya. Oleh karena itu, suatu informasi perlu diamankan sehingga hanya orang yang memiliki hak akses yang dapat mengetahui atau mendapatkan informasi tersebut. Dan untuk menjaga kerahasiaan informasi, salah satu caranya adalah dengan memasukkan data ke objek lain, sehingga orang lain tidak menyadari jika objek tersebut berisi data atau informasi penting. Metode persembunyian ini juga dikenal sebagai steganografi, dan kriptografi ditambahkan untuk memperkuat keamanan data, yaitu ilmu dan seni untuk menjaga kerahasiaan pesan dengan menyandikannya dalam bentuk yang tidak dapat dipahami. Metode yang digunakan dalam steganografi adalah Least Significant Bit (LSB), algoritma yang digunakan dalam kriptografi adalah Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), dan metode pengembangan perangkat lunak yang digunakan adalah prototipe. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah semua aspek keamanan data dapat dicapai, termasuk ketika melewati proses pengiriman data melalui media seperti internet.</em></p><strong><em>Kata kunci:</em></strong><em> Steganografi, kriptografi, Prototipe</em>


Author(s):  
Bakhan Tofiq Ahmed

<p>Information is a vitalthing that needs to be secured and well protected during transmission between two or more parties over the internet. This can be achieved by steganography technology. Steganography is the concealing science in which the information is concealed inside other information in a way that the concealed information cannot be detectable by the human eye. Many ways are available to hide data inside a cover media for example text, image, and audio steganography, but image steganography is the most utilized technique among the others. Secure image steganography has a high-security level than traditional technique by combining steganography with cryptography due to encrypting secret information by cryptography algorithm before embedding it into the cover media by steganography algorithm. In this paper,a systematic review has been presented about secure image steganography and its renowned types. Many researchers proposed secure image steganography by using various cryptography and steganography algorithms which have been reviewed. The least significant bit ‘LSB’ was the renowned steganography algorithm which has been used by researchers due to its simplicity, while various cryptography algorithms like advanced encryption standard (AES) and blowfishhave been used to propose secure image steganography in the reviewed papers. The comparison among the reviewed papers indicated that the LSB with hash-RSA gave a greater peak signal-noise ratio ‘PSNR’ value than the others which was 74.0189 dB.</p>


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (19) ◽  
pp. 4312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. F. Saraiva ◽  
Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt ◽  
Diandre de Paula ◽  
André Sales Mendes ◽  
Gabriel Villarrubia González ◽  
...  

With the growing number of heterogeneous resource-constrained devices connected to the Internet, it becomes increasingly challenging to secure the privacy and protection of data. Strong but efficient cryptography solutions must be employed to deal with this problem, along with methods to standardize secure communications between these devices. The PRISEC module of the UbiPri middleware has this goal. In this work, we present the performance of the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), RC6 (Rivest Cipher 6), Twofish, SPECK128, LEA, and ChaCha20-Poly1305 algorithms in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, measuring their execution times, throughput, and power consumption, with the main goal of determining which symmetric key ciphers are best to be applied in PRISEC. We verify that ChaCha20-Poly1305 is a very good option for resource constrained devices, along with the lightweight block ciphers SPECK128 and LEA.


2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Shinta Puspita Sari ◽  
Winarno Winarno ◽  
Dodick Z. Sudirman

Nowadays, the development of celluler device especially mobile phone is very rapid. The security of information in mobile phone becoming such an important thing, because users do not want other people can access their essential information. It means in the security in mobile phone. One way to secure the data is steganograpgy technique. This technique hides the data in a digital media. In this research the steganography technique that the is used is the Least Significant Bit (LSB) which implemented to cellular equipment with android as the operating system. The digital image which is used to hide the data is PNG. The test result shows that steganography has been implemented successfully in android phone. In the imprecebility aspect, user cannot different between the picture with message and the original picture bare eyedly. In recovery aspect, the message successfully encrypted and decrypted without changing the original content of the message. The lack occurs in fidelity aspect which the expansion of PNG file happens. Index Terms—LSB, least significant bit, png, android, handphone


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