Data Hiding Using Steganography

Author

Dagadita, Monica Adriana ; Slusanschi, Emil Ioan ; Dobre, Razvan

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Univ. Politeh. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

fYear

2013

fDate

27-30 June 2013

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

166

Abstract

It is a truth universally acknowledged that "a picture is worth a thousand words". The emerge of digital media has taken this saying to a complete new level. By using steganography, one can hide not only 1000, but thousands of words even in an average sized image. This article presents various types of techniques used by modern digital steganography, as well as the implementation of the least significant bit (LSB) method. The main objective is to develop an application that uses LSB insertion in order to encode data into a cover image. Both a serial and parallel version are proposed and an analysis of the performances is made using images ranging from 1:9 to 131 megapixels.

Keywords

image coding; multimedia computing; steganography; LSB method; data encoding; data hiding; digital media; digital steganography; image encoding; least significant bit; Encryption; Image coding; Image color analysis; Message systems; Noise; Transform coding; Boss-worker; LSB insertion; Load-balancing; Pthreads; Steganography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), 2013 IEEE 12th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bucharest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2967-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPDC.2013.29

Filename

6663577