EasyStego: Robust Steganography Based on Quick-Response Barcodes for Crossing Domains

Luo, Zhenhao; Xie, Wei; Wang, Baosheng; Tang, Yong; Xing, Qianqian

doi:10.3390/sym11020222

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“…From the graph, the PSNR value obtained for secret data is higher for all test images compared to the PSNR value for secret images. Secret messages should be protected not only in the cyber domain but also in the complex physical domain [23]. The results of Table 2 show that the proposed QR-based steganography method yields better results than all the existing techniques in almost all stenographic images.…”

Section: For Color Imagementioning

confidence: 98%

Histogram Shifting-Based Quick Response Steganography Method for Secure Communication

Peter¹,

Sherine²,

Teekaraman

et al. 2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Steganography is a tool which allows the data for transmission by concealing secret information in a tremendously growing network. In this paper, a novel technique quick response method (QRM) is proposed for the purpose of encryption and decryption. Existing system uses side match vector quantization (SMVQ) technique which has some challenges such as security issues and performance issues. To handle the security and performance issues, the proposed system uses two methods, namely, quick response method and shifting method. In the proposed system, encoding part calculates the performance for capacity, PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio), MSE (mean square error), and SSIM (structural similarity index method), and the decoding part calculates the performance of MSE (mean square error) and PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio). The shifting method is used to increase the data hiding capacity. In this system, the encryption part embeds the secret image using steganography and the decryption part extracts the original image. By analyzing and comparing the proposed system with the existing system, it is proved that the system proposed was much better than the existing systems.

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Section: For Color Imagementioning

confidence: 98%

Histogram Shifting-Based Quick Response Steganography Method for Secure Communication

Peter¹,

Sherine²,

Teekaraman

et al. 2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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“…However, this method is not robust against image compression. Luo et al [26] proposed EasyStego, a unique cross-domain steganography system. EasyStego is based on the usage of QR codes as carriers, therefore it is resistant to physical distortions in the complicated physical field.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reversible Video Steganography Using Quick Response Codes and Modified ElGamal Cryptosystem

Mstafa¹

2022

Computers, Materials &Amp; Continua

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The rapid transmission of multimedia information has been achieved mainly by recent advancements in the Internet's speed and information technology. In spite of this, advancements in technology have resulted in breaches of privacy and data security. When it comes to protecting private information in today's Internet era, digital steganography is vital. Many academics are interested in digital video because it has a great capability for concealing important data. There have been a vast number of video steganography solutions developed lately to guard against the theft of confidential data. The visual imperceptibility, robustness, and embedding capacity of these approaches are all challenges that must be addressed. In this paper, a novel solution to reversible video steganography based on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Quick Response (QR) codes is proposed to address these concerns. In order to increase the security level of the suggested method, an enhanced ElGamal cryptosystem has also been proposed. Prior to the embedding stage, the suggested method uses the modified ElGamal algorithm to encrypt secret QR codes. Concurrently, it applies two-dimensional DWT on the Y-component of each video frame resulting in Approximation (LL), Horizontal (LH), Vertical (HL), and Diagonal (HH) sub-bands. Then, the encrypted Low (L), Medium (M), Quantile (Q), and High (H) QR codes are embedded into the HL sub-band, HH sub-band, U-component, and V-component of video frames, respectively, using the Least Significant Bit (LSB) technique. As a consequence of extensive testing of the approach, it was shown to be very secure and highly invisible, as well as highly resistant to attacks from Salt & Pepper, Gaussian, Poisson, and Speckle noises, which has an average Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) of more than 0.91. Aside from visual imperceptibility, the suggested method exceeds current methods in terms of Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) average of 52.143 dB, and embedding capacity 1 bpp.

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“…Besides, the aforementioned, researchers found that the importance of reinforcing text steganography and cryptography methods lies in protecting the secret keys, which are considered the most critical element in information security technologies [35,37,149]. However, only a few researchers have used an encryption to improve the efficiency of their methods [150,151].…”

Section: Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Analysis of Arabic Text Steganography

et al. 2021

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Protecting sensitive information transmitted via public channels is a significant issue faced by governments, militaries, organizations, and individuals. Steganography protects the secret information by concealing it in a transferred object such as video, audio, image, text, network, or DNA. As text uses low bandwidth, it is commonly used by Internet users in their daily activities, resulting a vast amount of text messages sent daily as social media posts and documents. Accordingly, text is the ideal object to be used in steganography, since hiding a secret message in a text makes it difficult for the attacker to detect the hidden message among the massive text content on the Internet. Language’s characteristics are utilized in text steganography. Despite the richness of the Arabic language in linguistic characteristics, only a few studies have been conducted in Arabic text steganography. To draw further attention to Arabic text steganography prospects, this paper reviews the classifications of these methods from its inception. For analysis, this paper presents a comprehensive study based on the key evaluation criteria (i.e., capacity, invisibility, robustness, and security). It opens new areas for further research based on the trends in this field.

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EasyStego: Robust Steganography Based on Quick-Response Barcodes for Crossing Domains

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Histogram Shifting-Based Quick Response Steganography Method for Secure Communication

Histogram Shifting-Based Quick Response Steganography Method for Secure Communication

Reversible Video Steganography Using Quick Response Codes and Modified ElGamal Cryptosystem

A Comparative Analysis of Arabic Text Steganography

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