TY - GEN
T1 - A Novel Approach for Steganography App in Android OS
AU - Gurung, Kushal
AU - Azam, Sami
AU - Shanmugam, Bharanidharan
AU - Kannoorpatti, Krishnan
AU - Jonkman, Mirjam
AU - Balasubramaniam, Arasu
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - The process of hiding information in a scientific and artistic way is known as Steganography. The information hidden cannot be easily retrieved or accessed and is unidentifiable. In this research, some of the existing methods for image steganography has been explained. These are LSB (Least Significant Bits) substitution method, DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) and DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform). A comparative analysis of these techniques depicted that LSB is the easiest and most efficient way of hiding information. But this technique can be easily attacked and targeted by attackers as it changes the image resolution. Using LSB technique an application was created for image steganography because it hides the secret message in binary coding. To overcome this problem a RSA algorithm was used in the least significant bits of pixels of image. Additionally, a QR code was generated in the encryption process to make it more secure and allow the quality of the image to remain as intact, as it was before the encryption. PNG and JPEG formats were used as the cover image in the app and findings also indicated the data was fully recovered.
AB - The process of hiding information in a scientific and artistic way is known as Steganography. The information hidden cannot be easily retrieved or accessed and is unidentifiable. In this research, some of the existing methods for image steganography has been explained. These are LSB (Least Significant Bits) substitution method, DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) and DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform). A comparative analysis of these techniques depicted that LSB is the easiest and most efficient way of hiding information. But this technique can be easily attacked and targeted by attackers as it changes the image resolution. Using LSB technique an application was created for image steganography because it hides the secret message in binary coding. To overcome this problem a RSA algorithm was used in the least significant bits of pixels of image. Additionally, a QR code was generated in the encryption process to make it more secure and allow the quality of the image to remain as intact, as it was before the encryption. PNG and JPEG formats were used as the cover image in the app and findings also indicated the data was fully recovered.
KW - DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform)
KW - Image steganography
KW - LSB (Least Significant Bits)
KW - QR code
KW - RSA
KW - Wavelet
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044469858&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-76348-4_43
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-76348-4_43
M3 - Conference Paper published in Proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85044469858
SN - 9783319763477
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 442
EP - 450
BT - Intelligent Systems Design and Applications - 17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA 2017
A2 - A, Abraham
A2 - N, Gandhi
A2 - PK, Muhuri
A2 - AK, Muda
PB - Springer-Verlag London Ltd.
CY - Cham, Switzerland
T2 - 17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA 2017
Y2 - 14 December 2017 through 16 December 2017
ER -