A novel steganography method for binary and color halftone images.

Halftone image Image processing Plaintext payload Secret sharing Steganography

Journal

PeerJ. Computer science
ISSN: 2376-5992
Titre abrégé: PeerJ Comput Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101660598

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 28 01 2022
accepted: 18 07 2022
entrez: 12 9 2022
pubmed: 13 9 2022
medline: 13 9 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Digital steganography is the science of establishing hidden communication on electronics; the aim is to transmit a secret message to a particular recipient using unsuspicious carriers such as digital images, documents, and audio files with the help of specific hiding methods. This article proposes a novel steganography method that can hide plaintext payloads on digital halftone images. The proposed method distributes the secret message over multiple output copies and scatters parts of the message randomly within each output copy for increased security. A payload extraction algorithm, where plain carrier is not required, is implemented and presented as well. Results gained from conducted objective and subjective tests prove that the proposed steganography method is secure and can hide large payloads.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36091978
doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1062
pii: cs-1062
pmc: PMC9455272
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

e1062

Informations de copyright

© 2022 Çiftci and Sümer.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Auteurs

Efe Çiftci (E)

Department of Computer Engineering, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey.

Emre Sümer (E)

Department of Computer Engineering, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

Classifications MeSH