Review on image steganography using different LSB methods

Sharma, Vijay Kumar; Soni, Bhanu Pratap; Janu, Neha; Aziz, Sadaf; Shekhawat, Deepika

doi:10.47974/JDMSC-1985

Open Access Research Article

Review on image steganography using different LSB methods

^*Vijay Kumar SharmaCorresponding authorVijaymayankmudgal2008@gmail.comDepartment of Computer and Communication EngineeringManipal University JaipurJaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaView full profile → , Bhanu Pratap Sonibhanu.soni@fnu.ac.fjSchool of Electrical and Electronics EngineeringCollege of Engineering and Technical Vocational Education and TrainingFiji National UniversityNasinu, FijiView full profile → , Neha Januneha.janu@jaipur.manipal.eduDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringManipal University JaipurJaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaView full profile → , Sadaf Azizsadafaziz78678600@gmail.comDepartment of Computer and Communication EngineeringManipal University JaipurJaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaView full profile → , Deepika Shekhawatdeepikashekhawat08@gmail.comDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringAmity School of Engineering and TechnologyAmity University MumbaiMumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaView full profile →

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pp. 1319–1329Vol. 27Issue 4June 2024DOI: 10.47974/JDMSC-1985 Crossmark XML

Published Online:: 26 Jun 2024
Article type:: Research Article
Language:: EN
Article no.:: JDMSC-1985
Pages:: 1319–1329

Abstract

Steganography is originated from the words:’stegos,’ which in Greek means ‘to cover or to hide,’ and ‘grayfia,’ which means ‘writing,’ thus forming the concept of ‘covered writing,’ or ‘writing which is hidden.’ Steganography is the process or technique in which some confidential data or some information is concealed in reverse file or message which will be extracted from the recipient’s side with the use of reverse algorithm used at the time of embedding. There are different types of steganography techniques involved, as the data can be of distinct varieties such as image, text, audio and video. Along with these steganography techniques there is also network steganography. But here, we are mainly going to discuss about LSB (i.e. Least significant bit substitution) based Image steganography methods.

Keywords

Image steganography LSB algorithm Cryptography AES cryptography Bit flipping method

Subject Classifications

94A60

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