This paper devotes itself to the study of secret message delivery using cover image and introduces a novel steganographic technique based on genetic algorithm to find a near-optimum structure for the pair-wise least-significant-bit (LSB) matching scheme. A survey of the related literatures shows that the LSB matching method developed by Mielikainen, employs a binary function to reduce the numbe...

we present a steganalysis scheme for lsb matching steganography based on feature vectors extracted from integer wavelet transform (iwt). in integer wavelet decomposition of an image, the coefficients will be integer, so we can calculate co-occurrence matrix of them without rounding the coefficients. before calculation of co-occurrence matrices, we clip some of the most significant bitplanes of ...

In this study, a novel approach which uses combination of steganography and cryptography for hiding information into digital images as host media is proposed. In the process, secret data is first encrypted using the mono-alphabetic substitution cipher method and then the encrypted secret data is embedded inside an image using an algorithm which combines the random patterns based on Space Fillin...

We consider the problem of detecting the presence of hidden data in colour bitmap images. Like straightforward LSB Replacement, LSB Matching (which randomly increments or decrements cover pixels to embed the hidden data in the least significant bits) is attractive because it is extremely simple to implement. It has proved much harder to detect than LSB Replacement because it does not introduce ...

This paper proposed a new steganalysis method against least significant bit (LSB) matching for images with high noise component which is considered more difficult for steganalysis than images with low noise component. First we calculate the sum of curvature of images histogram as discriminative feature which will reduce after LSB matching. Then, the calibration mechanism is introduced to reduce...

In the paper, for enhancing the security of the traditional LSB matching, two improved LSB-matching methods are proposed. In the steganograhical procedure, the Markov chain distance based on the second-order statistics is chosen as the security metric to control the modification directions of ±1 embedding. The first method is based on stochastic modification, which directly determines the modif...

(Markus Kahn, 1995) defines Steganography as art and science of communicating in a way which hides the existence of the communication. In contrast to cryptography, where the enemy is allowed to detect, intercept and modify messages without being able to violate certain security premises guaranteed by a cryptosystem, the goal of steganography is to hide messages inside other innocent messages in...

(Markus Kahn, 1995) defines Steganography as art and science of communicating in a way which hides the existence of the communication. In contrast to cryptography, where the enemy is allowed to detect, intercept and modify messages without being able to violate certain security premises guaranteed by a cryptosystem, the goal of steganography is to hide messages inside other innocent messages in...