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Secure Image Steganography using Cryptography and Image Transposition
Information security is one of the most challenging problems in today's
technological world. In order to secure the transmission of secret data over
the public network (Internet), various schemes have been presented over the
last decade. Steganography combined with cryptography, can be one of the best
choices for solving this problem. This paper proposes a new steganographic
method based on gray-level modification for true colour images using image
transposition, secret key and cryptography. Both the secret key and secret
information are initially encrypted using multiple encryption algorithms
(bitxor operation, bits shuffling, and stego key-based encryption); these are,
subsequently, hidden in the host image pixels. In addition, the input image is
transposed before data hiding. Image transposition, bits shuffling, bitxoring,
stego key-based encryption, and gray-level modification introduce five
different security levels to the proposed scheme, making the data recovery
extremely difficult for attackers. The proposed technique is evaluated by
objective analysis using various image quality assessment metrics, producing
promising results in terms of imperceptibility and security. Moreover, the high
quality stego images and its minimal histogram changeability, also validate the
effectiveness of the proposed approach.Comment: A simple but effective image steganographic method, providing secure
transmission of secret data over Internet. The final published version of the
paper can be downloaded from the link:
(http://www.neduet.edu.pk/NED-Journal/2015/15vol4paper3.html). Please contact
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A novel magic LSB substitution method (M-LSB-SM) using multi-level encryption and achromatic component of an image
Image Steganography is a thriving research area of information security where
secret data is embedded in images to hide its existence while getting the
minimum possible statistical detectability. This paper proposes a novel magic
least significant bit substitution method (M-LSB-SM) for RGB images. The
proposed method is based on the achromatic component (I-plane) of the
hue-saturation-intensity (HSI) color model and multi-level encryption (MLE) in
the spatial domain. The input image is transposed and converted into an HSI
color space. The I-plane is divided into four sub-images of equal size,
rotating each sub-image with a different angle using a secret key. The secret
information is divided into four blocks, which are then encrypted using an MLE
algorithm (MLEA). Each sub-block of the message is embedded into one of the
rotated sub-images based on a specific pattern using magic LSB substitution.
Experimental results validate that the proposed method not only enhances the
visual quality of stego images but also provides good imperceptibility and
multiple security levels as compared to several existing prominent methods.Comment: This paper has been published in Multimedia Tools and Applications
Journal with impact factor=1.058. The readers can study the formatted paper
using the following link:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-015-2671-9. Please use
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