Improving the security of LSB image steganography

Steganography is the technique of hiding secret data (message) within any media such as digital color image. In this paper we will merge steganography process with cryptography process in order to increase the security of the proposed method. The steganography process will based on LSB method, while the cryptography process will based on generating a huge private key and selecting a special function for encryption decryption. The proposed method will be implemented in order to calculate some performance parameters to prove the efficiency of the proposed method

A Novel Based On Image Blocking Method To Encrypt-Decrypt Color

Encryption of digital color image is the process of conversion original digital color image into an encrypted one to protect the image from hacking or to prevent an authorized person to get the valuable information located in the color image. The process of color image encryption-decryption is very important issue in human activities and here in this paper we will introduce a new simple, efficient and highly secure method to be used for color image encryption-decryption. The proposed method will be tested and implemented, the efficiency parameters of the proposed method will be calculated and will be compared with other methods parameters to prove the efficiency issues of the proposed method

Creating Color Image Signature Based On Laplacian Equation

Colour image retrieval, identification and recognition play an important role in vital computerized applications, so creating an image signature which can be used as a key to identify the image is an essential and important problem to be solved. In this paper a new method of image signature extraction will be proposed. The proposed method will be implemented and tested and the experimental results will be compared with other method results to prove the efficiency of the proposed method by mean of creating a unique signature which will require a minimum memory space and a smaller time to extract the signature

Alcohol use polygenic risk score, social support, and alcohol use among European American and African American adults.

Alcohol use is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. We examined the interactive effects between genome-wide polygenic risk scores for alcohol use (alc-PRS) and social support in relation to alcohol use among European American (EA) and African American (AA) adults across sex and developmental stages (emerging adulthood, young adulthood, and middle adulthood). Data were drawn from 4,011 EA and 1,274 AA adults from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism who were between ages 18-65 and had ever used alcohol. Participants completed the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism and provided saliva or blood samples for genotyping. Results indicated that social support from friends, but not family, moderated the association between alc-PRS and alcohol use among EAs and AAs (only in middle adulthood for AAs); alc-PRS was associated with higher levels of alcohol use when friend support was low, but not when friend support was high. Associations were similar across sex but differed across developmental stages. Findings support the important role of social support from friends in buffering genetic risk for alcohol use among EA and AA adults and highlight the need to consider developmental changes in the role of social support in relation to alcohol use