Hiding Information in Digital Images Using LSB Steganography Technique
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Title
Hiding Information in Digital Images Using LSB Steganography Technique
Subject
Image Steganography, Least Significant Bits, LSB, XOR operator.
Description
The highest way to protect data from intruder and unauthorized persons has become a major issue. This matter led to the development of many techniques for data security, such as Steganography, Cryptography, and Watermarking to disguise data. This paper proposes an image steganography method using the Least Significant Bits (LSB) technique and XOR operator and a secret key, through which the secret key is transformed into a one-dimensional bit stream array, then these bits are XORed with the bits of the secret image. Multiple experiments have been performed to embed color and grayscale images inside cover media. In this work, the LSB technique is ideal in two ways: firstly, only the least significant one-bit (1bit) of each byte will store the embedded data, this method is named (1-LSB). Secondly, the four least significant bits of the right half-byte (4 bits) of each byte will store the embedded data, this method is named (4-LSB). Subjective and objective analyzes were performed for each LSB process. The subjective analysis is responsible for both HVS and histogram, whereas the objective analysis involved both PSNR and MSE metrics.
Creator
Sabah Abdulazeez Jebur
Abbas Khalifa Nawar
Lubna Emad Kadhim
Mothefer Majeed Jahefer
Source
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 17 No. 07 (2023); pp. 167-178
1865-7923
Publisher
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria
Date
2023-04-05
Rights
Copyright (c) 2023 Haider TH.Salim ALRikabi, Sabah Abdulazeez Jebur , Abbas Khalifa Nawar, Lubna Emad Kadhim, Mothefer Majeed Jahefer
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Relation
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Identifier
Citation
Sabah Abdulazeez Jebur et al., Hiding Information in Digital Images Using LSB Steganography Technique, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2023, accessed November 5, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2526