StegCure: an amalgamation of different steganographic methods in GIF image

  • Authors:
  • L. Y. Por;W. K. Lai;Z. Alireza;B. Delina

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • ICCOMP'08 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Steganography is one of the information hiding techniques which conceals a secret message into an unsuspicious medium so that a communication channel is undetectable. Suspicion becomes the significant key determinant in the field of steganography. The steganographic algorithms and functions which are applied in constructing of the stego medium can distinguish the difference between various steganography systems. This paper presents an overview of steganography on GIF image format in order to explore the potential of GIF in information hiding research. A platform, namely StegCure is proposed by using an amalgamation of three different Least Significant Bit (LSB) insertion algorithms that is able to perform steganographic method. In fact, the receiver is allowed to perform only once in desteganography to restrict any unauthorized user from retrieving the secret message through trial and error. Besides, we also highlight a few aspects in LSB methods on image steganography. The future work will be focused in assimilation of diversified methods into a whole gamut of steganography systems.