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Swati Patil et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com
ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 6), March 2014, pp.46-50
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Modified Approach for Hiding Secret Data and Improving
Data Embedding Capacity
Swati Patil, Komal More
Department of Computer Engineering Dr. D.Y Patil College of Engineering, Ambi, Pune, India.
Department of Computer Engineering Dr. D.Y Patil College of Engineering, Ambi, Pune, India
Abstract
Security of the secret information has been a challenge when the large amount of data is exchanged on the
internet. A secure transfer of information can be very much achieved by steganography and Cryptography.
Steganography is a tool for hiding information inside an image. Cryptography is a tool which provides
encryption techniques for secure communication. In the traditional steganograhy techniques principle was either
to replace a special part of the frequency components of the carrier image, or to replace all the least significant
bits of a multi-valued image with the secret information. Our new steganography uses an image as the carrier
data, and we embed secret information in the bit-planes of the carrier. This technique makes use of the
characteristics of the human vision system whereby a human cannot perceive any shape information in a very
complicated binary pattern. We can replace all of the ―noise-like‖ regions in the bit-planes of the carrier
image with secret data without deteriorating the image quality.
Keywords- Bit Plane, BPCS, Hybrid Cryptography, LSB, Modified BPCS, Steganography.
I. Introduction
Information security is a major issue of concern
while exchanging a data in an open network, as
internet is not only a single network it is worldwide
collection of loosely network. Anyone can hack the
information and then make misuse from that or
corrupt it or we can say that anyone can destroy the
information if it is not fully secured or protected.
Steganography and Cryptography both plays a very
important role in information security.
Steganography is information security tool
which stores the secret information in any media file
in such way that no one else except the sender of the
information and the intended receiver can only
suspect the existence of any sort of information.
Cryptography is also an information security tool
which provides encryption techniques to hide the
secret information.
A good information hiding technique shall
include the following requirements:
1) Imperceptibility: the difference between the stego
medium and the original one must be very slight such
that the illegal party cannot detect the embedded
information.
2) Security: the illegal party cannot extract out the
hidden information even if he has detected that there
are some information concealed in the stego medium.
3) Capacity: the total number of secret message
which can be embedded in the medium.
4) Robustness: the stego medium shall be able to
resist general image processing.
The merits of BPCS-Steganography found by the
experiments are as follows.
1) The information hiding capacity of a true color
image is around 50%.
2) A sharpening operation on the dummy image
increases the embedding capacity quite a bit.
3) Customization of a BPCS - Steganography
program for each user is easy.
4) It is most secured technique and provides high
security.
5) Randomization of the secret data by a
compression operation makes the embedded data
more intangible.
1.1 Problem Statement
Focus in this paper is towards information or data
security when communication takes place.
1) Prevent form hacking.
2) To provide the better data security.
3) Improve data embedding capacity and maintain
quality.
In this paper we are putting forward different
algorithms for explaining encoding and decoding.
The structure of this paper is as follows:
Section I consist of introduction with problem
statement of the paper Section II presents the related
work Section III includes the Existing system Section
IV consist of the proposed system Section V
represent the example with experimental analysis and
Section VI consist of conclusion.
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II. Related Work
Abbreviations
DES Data Encryption Standard.
RSA Rivest Shamir Adleman
LSB Least Significant Bit
BPCS Bit Plane Complexity Segmentation
2.1 Objectives
Focus in this paper is towards information
and data security during internet communication.
1) To provide the better data security.
2) Prevent form hacking.
3) Improve data embedding capacity and maintain
quality
2.2 LSB
Simple method in which the least significant
bits of the bytes in an image is replaced by bits of
secret message.
A large amount of data can be embedded by
LSB without observable changes. Very effective,
easy to implement, takes very less space but it has
low imperceptibility.
2.3 BPCS
In this segmentation of image are used by
measuring its complexity. It replaces the noisy
blocks of bit plan with the binary patterns mapped
from a secret data. Noisy blocks are determined with
help of complexity. It has Very large embedding
capacity.
2.4 Modified BPCS
It uses an image as the vessel data, and we
embed secret information in the bit-planes of the
vessel. This technique makes use of the
characteristics of the human vision system whereby a
human cannot perceive any shape information in a
very complicated binary pattern. We can replace all
of the “noise-like” regions in the bit-planes of the
vessel image with secret data without deteriorating
the image quality. Input data will be vessel image
and data to embed in byte format. Load the vessel
image into memory. Get width and height of the
memory image. Generate a threshold value.
III. Existing System
Information send through any network have
a chance to attack by hackers. After data embedding,
the quality of image may be affected.
Encryption provides an obvious approach to
information security, and encryption programs are
readily available. However, encryption clearly marks
a message as containing “secret” information, and
the encrypted message becomes subject to attack.
Furthermore, in many cases it is desirable to send
information without anyone even noticing that
information has been sent secret information.
IV. Proposed System
In steganography, data is hidden inside a
vessel or container that looks like it contains only
something else. A variety of vessels are possible,
such as digital images, sound clips, and even
executable files.
All of the traditional steganographic techniques have
limited information-hiding capacity. They can hide
only 10% (or less) of the data amounts of the vessel.
This Technique uses an image as the vessel data, and
we embed secret information in the bit-planes of the
vessel. We can replace all of the “noise-like” regions
in the bit-planes of the vessel image with secret data
without deteriorating the image quality.
Fig. Flow of proposed system
4.1 Encoding
The encoding process follows the steps
listed below:
Step 1: Calculate the size of the secret data and
cover-image.
Step 2: Determine the total bytes from the RGB
pixels needed in cover-image to encode the secret
data.
bits per pixel=bits per byte x 3 (1)

number of pixel of cover=(cover lengh*8)/bit per
pixel (2)
number of pixel of data=(cover lengh*8)/bit per pixel
(3)
Step 3: The system reads the bytes of the secret data.
Convert the amount of bits of the secret data in
(3) from integer into binary string.
Step 4: Segment the pixel into three blocks which are
red, green and blue.
Step 5: Get the total LSB or LSBs needed for
encoding.
Step 6: Calculate the arrays from the first seven
pixels (from the 0th pixel to the 6thpixel) of the
bitmap cover-image to store the secret data details as
depicted in Table 3. The number of k pixels will be
used to store the file name of the secret data.
k=n-7 (4)
Denote:
k: Capacity of the file name used in term of pixels.
n: The kth pixel after the 6th pixel. The remaining
pixels of the cover-image will be used to store the
contents of the secret data.
Step 7: Calculate the number of LSB or LSBs in the
colour pixels of the cover-image that are being used
to encode data
x=8-m (5)
Total encoded LSBs=(s1- x1)+(s2- x2)+(s3- x3) (6)
Fig. Encoding process
The following computation obtains the total
encoded LSBs and the value of a new pixel with
encoded data:
Total encoded LSBs=(s1- x1)+(s2- x2)+(s3-
x3)
New pixel value with encoded data=original byte +
total encoded LSBs.
4.2 Decoding
After encoding secret data into the cover-
image, the secret data has to be decoded for retrieval.
The following are steps for decoding:
Step 1: Calculate the size of the stego-image.
Step 2: The system reads the bytes of the stego-
image.
Convert the amount of bits of the stego-image
from integer to binary string.
Step 3: Determine encoding method for the number
of LSBs to be used
Step 4: Calculate and identify the number of pixels
Stego image
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No

in the stego-image and also the embedded secret data
respectively using 1, 2 and 3.
Step 5: Use the last three byte values 216, 224 and
232 to obtain the offset of the string. Each of the
values mentioned will deduct the LSB used in order
to discard unused bits for secret data embedding.
first offset=16-encoded LSB (7)
second offset=24-encoded LSB (8)
third offset=32-encoded LSB (9)
Step 6: Extract and combine the remaining LSB at
each pixel in the BMP-24 file in order to retrieve
back the original secret data.
decoded string= (7)+(8)+(9)
(10)
From 10, the decoded string is the secret data
retrieved.
Figure 8 shows the decoding process of the proposed
scheme when a receiver decodes a stego-image.
Fig. decoding process
V. Experimental Results
Consider following figure [a] is an original
Lena Image and considered embed text file capacity
is 90077bytes. Figure [b] is a stego-image with alpha
value 0.03 and bit plane sets as 3. Figure [c] is a
cover image with alpha as 0.03 and gamma as 0.5
after encryption and data compression as per
proposed method.
Hence observed results of the proposed
method produce more data embedded capacity and
also preserved the visibility of the image.
Figure Original image
Figure Modified BPCS stego image
Figure Proposed method stego image
The experiment prefers peak-signal to-noise
ratio (PSNR) as objective criteria of visual
imperceptibility. The definition of PSNR as follow:
PSNR = 10 * log10 ( Imax / MSE) db= 20 * log10 ( I
max / √MSE) db
No
Yes
Secret data

Where, Imax is equal to 255 for grayscale
images, and the mean squared error MSE is defined
[13] to be: MSE = (1/MN) * Σ(i=1) M Σ(j=1)
N(‫׀‬CI(i,j) – SI(i,j)‫׀‬ )
Where, M and N represent the number of
horizontal and vertical pixels respectively of the
cover(C) and stego(S) image. The greater the PSNR
is, the better the fidelity is, and the similar the two
images are shown above.
Following table shows the details about the
stego image
Ima
ge
Cap
acity
PSNR for
modified BPCS
PSNR for
modified BPCS
R G B R G B
Len
a
992
98
33.4 33 33.2 43.2 34.8 34.9
Table Experimental result of proposed method
VI. Conclusion
The proposed scheme contributes a multi-
layered embedding feature that enable senders to
encode secret data into several cover-images
sequentially to create a stealth camouflage to avoid
intruder's unwanted attention.
It provides two levels of security, hybrid
cryptography and steganography. If at all the intruder
suspects it is quite impossible for him to steal the
data because embedding byte positions are decided
based on modified BPCS approach. After the cipher
text is embedded, the degradation in image quality is
not apparent to normal human eye. Threshold is
customaries; hence sender can decide data hiding
capacity as well as quality of the image. This
approach can be extendable to send secret images in
carrier image. This steganography is a strong
information security technique, especially when
combined with hybrid encrypted embedded data
should be convinced.
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