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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2015.52.4.099

Steganography on Android Smart Devices  

Jung, Ki-Hyun (Department of Cyber Security, Kyungil University)
Lee, Joon-Ho (6th R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development)
Yoo, Kee-Young (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.52, no.4, 2015 , pp. 99-105 More about this Journal
Abstract
As increasing the use of smart phones, the interest of iOS and Android operating system is growing up. In this paper, a novel steganographic method based on Android platform is proposed. Firstly, we analyze the skia based image format that is supporting 2D graphic libraries in Android operating system. Then, we propose a new data hiding method based on the Android bitmap image format. The proposed method hides the secret data on the four true color areas which include Alpha, Red, Green, Blue. In especial, we increase the embedding capacity of the secret data on the Alpha area with a less image distortion. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a higher embedding capacity and less distortion by changing the size of the secret bits on the Alpha area.
Keywords
Information Hiding; Steganography; Watermarking; Reversible Data Hiding; Android;
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