LSB Based Image Steganography for Information Security System
Aung Myint Aye · International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development · 2018
Information hiding in a cover file is one of the most modernized and effective ways for transferring secret message from sender to receiver over the communication channel.There are many steganographic techniques for hiding secret message in image, text, audio, video and so on.Image Steganography is also one of the common methods used for hiding the information in the cover image.In this research work, the secret message is hidden in a cover image file using image steganography.LSB is very efficient algorithm used to embed the information in a cover file.The LSB based image steganography with various file sizes is analyzed and illustrated their results.Bitmap (*.bmp) image is used as a cover image file to implement the proposed system.The detail Least Significant Bit (LSB) based image steganography is introduced.In this paper, the new embedding algorithm and extracting algorithm are presented.While embedding the secret message in a cover image file, the starting embedded pixel is chosen according to public shared key between sender and receiver.The original cover image and embedded image with secret message are analyzed with PSNR values and SNR values to achieve security.The resulting embedded image shows the acceptable PSNR and SNR values while comparing with the original cover image.The proposed system can help the information exchanging system over communication media.