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Security of information is one of the important issues of digital communication. Steganography is one of the solutions to ensure secure data transmission over the network. In this paper, a novel secure edge based image steganography technique for 24-bit RGB images has been proposed. The proposed method first encrypts the secret data using encryption algorithm and then the edge pixels of the cover image is used for embedding the encrypted data in the order of strongest to weakest edge pixels depending on message length. To make interception of secret message difficult, XOR between the green component of pixel and mutually decided secret key has been used as location deciding factor among red and blue components of pixel. The performance evaluation shows that with this two level security, the proposed method can protect data from unauthorized access.
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Seeja, K.R., Rana, J., Priya, S., Ahuja, L. (2018). A Novel Edge Based Image Steganography Technique. In: Abraham, A., Cherukuri, A., Madureira, A., Muda, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2016). SoCPaR 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 614. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60618-7_7
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