A Review Study on Unique Way of Information Hiding: Steganography

Muhammad Zeeshan; Sibghat Ullah; Saadia Anayat; Rabia Ghulam Hussain; Nayab Nasir

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A Review Study on Unique Way of Information Hiding: Steganography

Muhammad Zeeshan, Sibghat Ullah, Saadia Anayat, Rabia Ghulam Hussain, Nayab Nasir

Published in International Journal on Data Science and Technology (Volume 3, Issue 5)

Received: 19 July 2017 Accepted: 17 August 2017 Published: 26 September 2017

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Abstract

Internet communication become the need of entire world, today internet is like a recourse of power that is used to run human life. The users, as a layman, may not know that internet, a way of communication, as the use of internet is increasing also data and information that is traveling through internet is increasing by every passing day every minute. In an internet environment where every user need security about their data and information that they want to share with other, such environment requires secrecy and security to safeguard the privacy. There are many approaches available that can be adopted to provide user data security, Steganography is one of the techniques which offer sufficient platform to tackle this aspect in a suitable way. The working is very easy; the information (data) can be hidden inside the other information (data) while viewers may see the cover and hidden data will be known to intended viewers only that know the way of decryption that is adopted at sender side. In simple world two images are selected, one as cover and other as message carrier, but the view and size of original image may not be changed. This paper discusses certain technique and algorithms in context to Least Significant Bit (LSB) and ascertains possible depth of LSB usage where the distortion of image starts and attracts the attacker/ hacker. It became a unique way of information hiding by merging images with cipher data or plain text.

Published in	International Journal on Data Science and Technology (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijdst.20170305.11
Page(s)	45-51
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2017. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Steganography, Algorithms, LSB, Depth of LSB, Distortion of Image

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Muhammad Zeeshan, Sibghat Ullah, Saadia Anayat, Rabia Ghulam Hussain, Nayab Nasir. (2017). A Review Study on Unique Way of Information Hiding: Steganography. International Journal on Data Science and Technology, 3(5), 45-51. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijdst.20170305.11

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Muhammad Zeeshan, Sibghat Ullah, Saadia Anayat, Rabia Ghulam Hussain, Nayab Nasir. A Review Study on Unique Way of Information Hiding: Steganography. Int J Data Sci Technol. 2017;3(5):45-51. doi: 10.11648/j.ijdst.20170305.11

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Muhammad Zeeshan

Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
Sibghat Ullah

Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
Saadia Anayat

Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
Rabia Ghulam Hussain

Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
Nayab Nasir

Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan

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