Improving Security of LSBM Steganography Using of Genetic Algorithm, Mmulti-Key and Blocking
Subject Areas : electrical and computer engineeringvajiheh sabeti 1 * , Sepide faiazi 2 , hadise shirinkhah 3
1 - Alzahra Univercity
2 -
3 -
Keywords: SteganographysteganalysisLSBMgenetic algorithm,
Abstract :
By increasing the precision of steganalysis attacks in discovering methods of steganography, the need to improve the security of steganographic methods is felt more than ever. The LSBM is one of the simplest methods of steganography, which have been proposed relatively successful attacks for its discovery. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a method for improving security of LSBM. The choice of the sequence of pixels to embed and how to modify them varies in LSBM-based methods. In most existing methods some of these decisions are made at random. In the proposed method in this paper, a multi-key idea in the first step and a genetic algorithm in the second step are used to make better decisions. In the proposed method, as MKGM, the image is blocked and GLSBM is executed for each block with different keys and finally the block with the least histogram change compared to the original block is included in the stego image. The GLSBM method is the same as the LSBM method except that the genetic algorithm is used to decide whether to increase or decrease non-matching pixels. Comparison of the image quality criteria and the accuracy of the attacks in the detection of the proposed method show that these criteria are improved compared to the original LSBM method.
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