Academia.eduAcademia.edu

Outline

Title
Abstract
Introduction
Related Work
Experimental Results and Discussion
Conclusion
References

A New Steganography Method for Hiding Text into RGB Image

Profile image of Dr. RUAA S H A L L A L ABBAS ANOOZDr. RUAA S H A L L A L ABBAS ANOOZ

Abstract

Now-a-days, the network has significant roles in transferring data and knowledge quickly and accurately from sender to receiver. However, the data is still not secure enough to transfer quite confidentially. Data protection is considered as one of the principal challenges in information sharing over communication. So, steganography techniques were proposed which are the art of hiding information that prevents secret text message detection from intruders. Nevertheless, most steganography methods use low bits number of secret messages. Moreover, these methods applied a single logic gate for encrypting the secret message. Therefore, this paper proposes a new method for the encryption of secret messages based on the Huffman technique to reduce the secret message dimensions. In addition, the proposed method uses two different logic gates namely XOR and XNOR for increasing the message security. The RGB Lena image is used as the cover image of the secret message. There are six different experiments conducted with respect to various lengths of the secret messages in bits. The experimental results show that when using the highest number of bits (i.e., 66288), the proposed method achieved 0.0233 MSE, 64.4589 PSNR, 0.9999998 SSIM, and 8.2383 encryption time. The proposed method has the ability to encrypt the secret message with a high number of bits.

Related papers

NOVEL TECHNIQUE FOR SECURING DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS BY USING CRYPTOGRAPHY AND STEGANOGRAPHY
Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology JJCIT

Information security is becoming more important and attracting much attention nowadays, as the amount of data being exchanged over the internet increased. There are various techniques to secure data communication, but the well-known and widely used techniques are cryptography and steganography. Cryptography changes data into another form that is unreadable by anyone except the intended receiver. Steganography hides the existence of secret data in a cover medium, so that no one can detect the hidden data except the authorized receiver. In this paper, we proposed a new technique for securing data communication systems by combining cryptography and steganography techniques. The cryptography algorithm that was used in this paper is Modified Jamal Encryption Algorithm (MJEA); it is a symmetric (64-bit) block encryption algorithm with (120-bit) key. For steganography, we designed an enhanced form of Least Significant Bit (LSB) algorithm with (128-bit) steg-key. The performance of the proposed technique has been evaluated by considering several experimental tests, such as impressibility test, embedding capacity test and security test. For this purpose, the proposed technique was applied on several 24-bit colored PNG cover images. All experimental results proved the strength of the proposed algorithm in securing the transition of data over unsecure channels to protect it against any attack. Furthermore, the simulation results show the superiority of our proposed algorithm when compared with other algorithms in terms of PSNR and embedding capacity.

View PDFchevron_right
Implementation of Improved Steganography for Hiding Text on Digital Data
Sujit Badodia

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2015

Data hiding techniques have taken vital role with the hasty growth of exhaustive transfer of multimedia content and secret communications. Steganography is the art of hiding information in ways that prevent recognition. Steganography means hiding a secret message (the embedded message) within a larger one (source cover) in such a way that an observer cannot be able to sense the presence of contents of the hidden message. Lots of different carrier file formats can be used, but digital images are the most popular because of their occurrence on the Internet. In this, data hiding method that utilizes encoding on letters, then compression of that letters and then a new technique is proposed which is combination of two techniques. Results came from the experiment show that the proposed method can bury a large amount of secret data and also keep very high security, when the message is decrypted.

View PDFchevron_right
High Security of Data Using Steganography with Hybrid Algorithm
poonam dhamal

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2015

With the modern technology in communication, there need some security on computer network. This security is one of the significant problem in tha data communication. Steganography is the art of hiding the message such that its presence cannot be detected. Message or encrypted message is hidden in the other carrier object before passing it through the network. In the existing system, for hiding the data only one technique is used i.e. steganography with X-box. In this paper, we will use 4 X-box technique which will hide 3 secret bit in each pixel of 24 or 32 bit cover image with hybrid algorithm i.e. AES and SHA-512. This will improve the security and PSNR value.

View PDFchevron_right
A Secure and High Capacity Image Steganography Approach Using Huffman Coding and RSA Encryption
salwa baawi

Journal of Al-Qadisiyah for Computer Science and Mathematics

Steganography is the practice of hiding data, such as images, videos, or text, within a cover image without it being detectable by the human eye. Several factors, such as the capacity, security, and robustness of the technique, are essential when transferring information using this method. In this study, we propose a new approach to image steganography that improves the Least Significant Bit (LSB) technique by utilizing images of 24 bits in each pixel. Improving the capacity and security of LSB-based steganography requires a combination of techniques, such as indirect embedding, embedding in multiple channels, and applying cryptographic and compression techniques. This approach conducts by encrypting each compressed secret message bit with the most significant bit of the red channel and then saving the output bit (hidden bit) in the least significant bit of the (green/blue) channel according to the row value (odd/ even). To further security, the suggested approach uses multi-level e...

View PDFchevron_right
A novel steganography method for image based on Huffman Encoding
RIG DAS

3rd National Conference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science (NCETACS), 2012 , 2012

Steganography is the science that involves communicating secret data in an appropriate multimedia carrier, e.g., image, audio and video files. It comes under the assumption that if the feature is visible, the point of attack is evident, thus the goal here is always to conceal the very existence of the embedded data. This paper presents a novel technique for image steganography based on Huffman Encoding. Two 8 bit gray level image of size M X N and P X Q are used as cover image and secret image respectively. The Huffman Encoding is performed on the secret image/message before embedding and each bit of Huffman code of secret image/message is embedded in the cover image by altering the least significant bit (LSB) of each of the pixels intensities of cover image. The size of the Huffman encoded bit stream and Huffman Table are also embedded in the cover image, so that the Stego-Image becomes standalone information to the receiver. The experimental results show that the algorithm has a high capacity and a good invisibility. Moreover Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) of cover image with stego-image shows the better results in comparison with other existing steganography approaches. Furthermore, satisfactory security is maintained since the secret message/image cannot be extracted without knowing decoding rules and Huffman table.

View PDFchevron_right
CRYPTOGRAPHIC STEGANOGRAPHY
Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) Computer Science Conference Proceedings (CSCP)

In the cryptographic steganography system, the message will first be converted into unreadable cipher and then this cipher will be embedded into an image file. Hence this type of system will provide more security by achieving both data encoding as well as data hiding. In this paper we propose an advanced steganocryptic system that combines the features of cryptography and steganography. In this proposed steganocryptic system we will encrypt the message into cipher1 by using Kunal Secure Astro-Encryption and we again encrypt this cipher to cipher2 by using grid cipher technique. Advantage of Kunal Secure Astro-Encryption is that it generates random useless points in between, thus fixed size messages can be generated providing more security compared to other cryptographic algorithms as the number of characters in original message cannot be found from encrypted message without the knowing the black holes. Now we will embed this cipher2 into image file by using visual steganography .In this proposed steganocryptic system we will use modified bit insertion technique to achieve visual steganography. This proposed system will be more secure than cryptography or steganography techniques[digital steganography] alone and also as compared to steganography and cryptography combined systems.

View PDFchevron_right
An Approach of Securing Data using Combined Cryptography and Steganography
Nur Hadisukmana

International Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Computing

The recent advance in information technology field forcing us to ensure the privacy of the digital data. It is very important to develop the method that may satisfy the needs. Many methods/techniques applied to reach that goal. One of efficient way to reach that secrecy can be achieved by combining Cryptography and Steganography. In this paper, a new RGB shuffling method proposed. The concept of encryption using RGB Shuffling is shuffling all of RGB element to distort the image. RGB Shuffling method will shuffle the RGB each pixel of image depends on the input password from user. The basic step of RGB shuffling is adding RGB element with ASCII password, invers and shuffle it.

View PDFchevron_right
A Secure Method to Hide Confidential Data Using Cryptography and Steganography
John K. Alhassan

2016

The rate at which encrypted messages are being sent over the internet and other electronic means will easily capture the attention of hackers and possibly make them try to disrupt or even hack those messages so as view the original message. Steganography is designed to hide the presence of a message by hiding the secret message inside an innocent file. For effective security, steganography is sometimes combined with cryptography. In this paper, steganography and cryptography are combined to provide a robust system capable of encrypting a secret message using RSA algorithm. To hide the message, advanced LSB method is used. The original message is encrypted at the initial stage and then separated into two portions P1 and P2. An XOR operation is applied to the first portion (P1) using the odd location and to the second portion (P2) using the even position of the LSB+1.The Position of the LSB is then used to hide the XORed encrypted message. Keywords-cryptography; RSA algorithm; stegano...

View PDFchevron_right
A Novel Two Layer of Security by Using Cryptography along with Steganography
Sajid Khan

2017

Security of data is an important task till from the beginning of internet to the current era. Currently main concern is over the transmitting of sensitive or high value data through open or nonsecure channel to the destination point in such a way that neither confidentiality nor the integrity of data has to be compromised. Conversion of actual information into some scrawled arrangement is termed as encryption. Although widely used cryptography techniques are still in use but alone it is not capable of protecting and hiding of data proficiently. Eavesdropper or detective can certainly identify the presence of scrambled information and can attempt a few cryptanalyses tactics to get the original information. So to enrich the safety of data a new approach is proposed that provides an easy to implementable and better security. The proposed work is about encrypting the plain text message by Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4) algorithm and then hiding the message into an image through steganography. En...

View PDFchevron_right
Application of Steganography and Cryptography for Secured Data Communication – A Review
Patience N Yabuwat, Babangida Zachariah, Bernard Ephraim

The need for security in data communication is as long as mankind; since eavesdroppers often intercept such communication for malicious purposes. Several techniques such as steganography and cryptography have been employed to hide the existence of communication and scramble such communication making it difficult to interpret in cases where steganography fails. Combining Cryptography and steganography has proven to have taken data communication security to another level. In this work, a review of these techniques is presented with major focus on two journals titled " Dual Layer Security of Data Using LSB Image Steganography Method and AES Encryption Algorithm " [1] and " An Efficient Data Hiding Scheme Using Steganography and Cryptography Technique " [2]were considered for review. A brief description of the techniques is provided. It is found that these techniques could improve security of data communication beyond the present levels if properly combined with little or no performance degradation.

View PDFchevron_right

References (37)

  1. T. Limbasiya and D. Das, "Lightweight secure message broadcasting protocol for vehicle-to-vehicle communication," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 520-529, 2019.
  2. M. Elhoseny et al., "Security and privacy issues in medical internet of things: overview, countermeasures, challenges and future directions," Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 21, p. 11645, 2021. www.ijacsa.thesai.org
  3. T. Naqash, A. Iqbal, and S. H. Shah, "Review on Safe Reversible Image Data Hiding," in 2019 IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), 2019: IEEE, pp. 0929-0932.
  4. B. Swathi, K. Shalini, and K. N. Prasanthi, "A review on steganography using images," Asian Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology, vol. 2, no. 8, 2012.
  5. M. K. I. Rahmani, K. Arora, and N. Pal, "A crypto-steganography: A survey," International Journal of Advanced computer science and applications, vol. 5, no. 7, 2014.
  6. M. Mittal, S. Gupta, P. K. Keserwani, and M. C. Govil, "Security Enhancement using Vectoring, Cryptography and Steganography," in 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Advanced Computing and Communication (ISACC), 2023: IEEE, pp. 1-8.
  7. J. Kour and D. Verma, "Steganography techniques-A review paper," International Journal of Emerging Research in Management & Technology, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 132-135, 2014.
  8. F. Sharmin and M. I. Khan, "Image steganography using combined nearest and farthest neighbors methods," International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 10, no. 11, 2019.
  9. N. Singh, "Survey paper on steganography," International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (IRJES), vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 68-71, 2017.
  10. M. K. Abed, M. M. Kareem, R. K. Ibrahim, M. M. Hashim, S. Kurnaz, and A. H. Ali, "Secure medical image steganography method based on pixels variance value and eight neighbors," in 2021 International Conference on Advanced Computer Applications (ACA), 2021: IEEE, pp. 199-205.
  11. P. W. Wong and N. Memon, "Secret and public key image watermarking schemes for image authentication and ownership verification," IEEE transactions on image processing, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 1593-1601, 2001.
  12. F. Q. A. Alyousuf, R. Din, and A. J. Qasim, "Analysis review on spatial and transform domain technique in digital steganography," Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 573-581, 2020.
  13. A. O. Modupe, A. E. Adedoyin, and A. O. Titilayo, "A Comparative Analysis of LSB, MSB and PVD Based Image Steganography," Int. J. Res. Rev, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 373-377, 2021.
  14. S. Rustad, P. N. Andono, and G. F. Shidik, "Digital image steganography survey and investigation (goal, assessment, method, development, and dataset)," Signal Processing, p. 108908, 2022.
  15. S. Rahman et al., "A Comprehensive Study of Digital Image Steganographic Techniques," IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 6770-6791, 2023.
  16. R. A. Watheq, F. Almasalha, and M. H. Qutqut, "A new steganography technique using JPEG images," International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 9, no. 11, 2018.
  17. V. Lakshminarayanan and I. Bhattacharya, "Advances in Optical Science and Engineering," Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 166, pp. 533-539, 2014.
  18. G. Paul, I. Davidson, I. Mukherjee, and S. Ravi, "Keyless dynamic optimal multi-bit image steganography using energetic pixels," Multimedia tools and applications, vol. 76, no. 5, pp. 7445-7471, 2017.
  19. O. I. I. Al-Farraji, "New technique of steganography based on locations of LSB," International Journal of Information Research and Review, vol. 4, no. 01, pp. 3549-3553, 2017.
  20. M. M. Hashim, M. S. M. Rahim, F. A. Johi, M. S. Taha, and H. S. Hamad, "Performance evaluation measurement of image steganography techniques with analysis of LSB based on variation image formats," International Journal of Engineering & Technology, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 3505-3514, 2018.
  21. H. L. Hussein, A. Abbass, S. Naji, S. Alaugby, and J. Lafta, "Hiding text in gray image using mapping technique," in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018, vol. 1003, p. 012032.
  22. Y. P. Astuti, E. H. Rachmawanto, and C. A. Sari, "Simple and secure image steganography using LSB and triple XOR operation on MSB," in 2018 International Conference on Information and Communications Technology (ICOIACT), 2018: IEEE, pp. 191-195.
  23. D. R. I. M. Setiadi, S. Rustad, P. N. Andono, and G. F. Shidik, "Graded fuzzy edge detection for imperceptibility optimization of image steganography," The Imaging Science Journal, pp. 1-13, 2023.
  24. H. Hiary, K. E. Sabri, M. S. Mohammed, and A. Al-Dhamari, "A hybrid steganography system based on LSB matching and replacement," International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 7, no. 9, 2016.
  25. C. A. Sari, G. Ardiansyah, and E. H. Rachmawanto, "An improved security and message capacity using AES and Huffman coding on image steganography," TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control), vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 2400-2409, 2019.
  26. S. Ghoul, R. Sulaiman, and Z. Shukur, "A Review on Security Techniques in Image Steganography," International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 14, no. 6, 2023.
  27. R. M. Neamah, J. A. Abed, and E. A. Abbood, "Hide text depending on the three channels of pixels in color images using the modified LSB algorithm," International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 809, 2020.
  28. H. R. Kareem, H. H. Madhi, and K. A.-A. Mutlaq, "Hiding encrypted text in image steganography," Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 703-707, 2020.
  29. D. Ratnasari and A. S. Aji, "Text to Color Image Steganography Using LSB Technique and XOR Operations," International Journal of Applied Business and Information Systems, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 59-65, 2019.
  30. A. Setyono, "Securing and hiding secret message in image using xor transposition encryption and LSB method," in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019, vol. 1196, no. 1: IOP Publishing, p. 012039.
  31. M. Ulker and B. Arslan, "A novel secure model: Image steganography with logistic map and secret key," in 2018 6th International Symposium on Digital Forensic and Security (ISDFS), 2018: IEEE, pp. 1-5.
  32. E. Emad, A. Safey, A. Refaat, Z. Osama, E. Sayed, and E. Mohamed, "A secure image steganography algorithm based on least significant bit and integer wavelet transform," Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 639-649, 2018.
  33. E. A. Abbood, R. M. Neamah, and S. Abdulkadhm, "Text in Image Hiding using Developed LSB and Random Method," International Journal of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2088-8708), vol. 8, no. 4, 2018.
  34. S. N. Abd-Alwahab, M. K. WAli, and M. F. Bonneya, "Text Hiding in Coded Image Based on Quantization Level Modification and Chaotic Function," International Journal of Integrated Engineering, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 148-158, 2021.
  35. Ö. Çataltaş and K. Tütüncü, "Comparison of LSB image steganography technique in different color spaces," in 2017 international artificial intelligence and data processing symposium (IDAP), 2017: IEEE, pp. 1- 6.
  36. S. A. Mahdi and A. K. Maisa'a, "An Improved Method for Combine (LSB and MSB) Based on Color Image RGB," Engineering and Technology Journal, vol. 39, no. 1B, pp. 231-242, 2021.
  37. S. N. Mali, P. M. Patil, and R. M. Jalnekar, "Robust and secured image- adaptive data hiding," Digital Signal Processing, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 314- 323, 2012.

Related papers

Crypto-Steganographic Method to Protect Secret Messages
IJCSMC Journal

IJCSMC, 2021

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.

View PDFchevron_right
Novel Steganography Method for Secure Data Transmission
Dr. Lakmal Rupasinghe

International journal of engineering research and technology, 2017

Steganography is the art of hiding information to prevent the detection of hidden messages. Cryptography can be defined as the conversion of plain text into a scrambled code. Both are two general ways of sending vital information in a secret way. A message in scrambled code aka cipher text, might arouse suspicion on the part of the recipient while an invisible message created with steganographic methods will not. But many steganographic systems are weak against visual and statistical attacks. Systems without these weaknesses offer only a relatively small capacity for a steganographic message. In this paper, we present a new steganographic technique to hide data inside an image. The newly planned technique withstands visual and statistical attacks, yet it still offers a large steganographic capacity. This method does not modify the image. Message to be hidden will be converted into a bit stream and divided into several blocks. The bit pattern of each block is identified inside the im...

View PDFchevron_right
Advanced Steganography Algorithm using Encrypted secret message
Asoke Nath

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2011

In the present work the authors have introduced a new method for hiding any encrypted secret message inside a cover file. For encrypting secret message the authors have used new algorithm proposed by Nath et al(1). For hiding secret message we have used a method proposed by Nath et al (2). In MSA (1) method we have modified the idea of Play fair method into a new platform where we can encrypt or decrypt any file. We have introduced a new randomization method for generating the randomized key matrix to encrypt plain text file and to decrypt cipher text file. We have also introduced a new algorithm for encrypting the plain text multiple times. Our method is totally dependent on the random text_key which is to be supplied by the user. The maximum length of the text_key can be of 16 characters long and it may contain any character (ASCII code 0 to 255). We have developed an algorithm to calculate the randomization number and the encryption number from the given text_key. The size of the encryption key matrix is 16x16 and the total number of matrices can be formed from 16 x 16 is 256! which is quite large and hence if someone applies the brute force method then he/she has to give trail for 256! times which is quite absurd. Moreover the multiple encryption method makes the system further secured. For hiding secret message in the cover file we have inserted the 8 bits of each character of encrypted message file in 8 consecutive bytes of the cover file. We have introduced password for hiding data in the cover file. We propose that our new method could be most appropriate for hiding any file in any standard cover file such as image, audio, video files. Because the hidden message is encrypted hence it will be almost impossible for the intruder to unhide the actual secret message from the embedded cover file. This method may be the most secured method in digital water marking.

View PDFchevron_right
A New Approach to Secure Communicationwith Steganography and Cryptography
Sourav Dinda

2013

In this paper we hide the message (data), using the concept of Steganography; in such a way that on-one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message. The proposed method hides the secret message based on searching about the identical bits between the secret messages and image pixels values. The new approach is based on the LSB (Least Significant Bit) method. Also a new approach is proposed to securely sending the message using Cryptographic concept in Steganography. From the sender side the encrypted message is send and hides it in a saved picture and encodes the message. At the receiver side decryption is done to get original message.

View PDFchevron_right
A Modified Method of Information Hiding Based on Hybrid Cryptography and Steganography
Fadhil Abed

2013

Combination of cryptography and Steganography for secure communication" is an application, which combines both Cryptography methods (i.e. Encryption, decryption) and Steganography techniques to make the communication more secure. The outcome of this project is to create a cross-platform tool that can effectively hide a message (i.e. Word document) inside a image file. It is concerned with embedding information in a secure and robust manner. In embedding stage, the colour of the cover image is separated to its component (RGB) then all are partitioned into non-overlapped blocks using quad-tree partition that is called range, and down sampling the range images to quarter its size to generate the domain. The domain pool is partitioned in to overlapped blocks. To find the best range-domain match, the linear affine mapping applied to represent the blocks of domain in terms of range blocks using IFS-code. The obtained values of the IFS coefficients the scale (s) and offset (o) are used for the embedding process. The characters value of the secret message are taken as an ASCII, after keeping 2 digits of the fraction part of (s) and (o) values and removing the other digits. The secret message will be added to the fraction value in order to occupy the 3rd, 4th and 5th places after the decimal point without affecting the 1st and 2nd places of the original fraction and without degrading the image quality. The proposed system depends upon preparing the image data for the next step fractal compression through steganographic process and using two levels of security: the hybrid RSA with Knapsack algorithm, A hybrid of RSA and knapsack cryptosystem can be represented as a secure system. The results that achieved from using this technique is the encrypted message which acquires a higher security and accuracy when compared with RSA and knapsack cryptosystem individually in modern communication systems to protect the information transmitted over an insecure communication channel.

View PDFchevron_right
580 California St., Suite 400
San Francisco, CA, 94104
© 2025 Academia. All rights reserved