• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.250-255
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• 2016

Steganography is the art and science of secure communication. It focuses on both security and camouflage. Steganographic techniques must produce the resultant stego-image with less distortion and high resistance to steganalysis attack. This paper is mainly concerned with two steganographic techniques-least significant bit (LSB)++ and the reversible histogram transformation function (RHTF). LSB++ is likely to produce less distortion in the output image to avoid suspicion, but it is vulnerable to steganalysis attacks. RHTF using a mod function technique is capable of resisting the most popular and efficient steganalysis attacks, such as the regular-singular pair attack and chi-squared detection steganalysis, but it produces a lot of distortion in the output image. In this paper, we propose a new steganographic technique by combining both methods. The experimental results show that the proposed technique overcomes the respective drawbacks of each method.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.266-276
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• 2013

LSB-based steganography is a simple and well known information hiding technique. In most LSB based techniques, a secret message is embedded into a specific position of LSB in the cover pixels. On the other hand, the main threat of LSB-based steganography is steganalysis. This paper proposes an asynchronous-cellular-automata(ACA)-based steganographic method, where secret bits are embedded into the selected position inside the cover pixel by ACA rule 51 and a secret key. As a result, it is very difficult for malicious users to retrieve a secret message from a cover image without knowing the secret key, even if the extraction algorithm is known. In addition, another layer of security is provided by almost random (rule-based) selection of a cover pixel for embedding using ACA and a different secret key. Finally, the experimental results show that the proposed method can be secured against the well-known steganalysis RS-attack.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.15-23
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• 2004

초창기 심층 암호의 대부분은 원본 영상의 최하위비트를 비밀 메시지 비트로 치환하는 방식이었기 때문에 인간의 감각으로는 메시지 삽입 여부를 구별해낼 수 없었지만 통계적 분석에 의하여 원본과 은닉물의 구별은 물론, 비밀 메시지의 삽입 량까지도 거의 추정해낼 수 있을 만큼 취약점을 내포하고 있었다. 우리는 Westfeld 와 Fridrich가 판단의 기준으로 정한 통계량을 각각 분석하였고, 이에 근거하여 원본의 통계량을 유지하면서도 대용량의 메시지를 삽입할 수 있는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안하는 방식은 단순히 원본 영상의 최하위 비트를 변화시켜 메시지를 삽입하는 방식이 아닌 원본의 실제 화소 값이 랜덤 하게 증가하거나 감소하는 방식으로 메시지를 삽입하게 된다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 컴퓨터소사이어티 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.23-26
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• 2003

Westfeld[1] analyzed a sequential LSB embedding steganography effectively through the $\chi$$^2$-statistical test which measures the frequencies of PoVs(pairs of values). Fridrich also proposed another statistical analysis, so-called RS steganalysis by which the embedding message rate can be estimated. In this paper, we propose a new steganographic scheme which preserves the above two statistics. The proposed scheme embeds the secret message in the innocent image by randomly adding one to real pixel value or subtracting one from it, then adjusts the statistical measures to equal those of the original image.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.405-424
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• 2013

This research paper proposes a secured, robust approach of information security using steganography. It presents two component based LSB (Least Significant Bit) steganography methods for embedding secret data in the least significant bits of blue components and partial green components of random pixel locations in the edges of images. An adaptive LSB based steganography is proposed for embedding data based on the data available in MSB's (Most Significant Bits) of red, green, and blue components of randomly selected pixels across smooth areas. A hybrid feature detection filter is also proposed that performs better to predict edge areas even in noisy conditions. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and random pixel embedding is incorporated to provide two-tier security. The experimental results of the proposed approach are better in terms of PSNR and capacity. The comparison analysis of output results with other existing techniques is giving the proposed approach an edge over others. It has been thoroughly tested for various steganalysis attacks like visual analysis, histogram analysis, chi-square, and RS analysis and could sustain all these attacks very well.