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A novel color image LSB steganography using improved 1D chaotic map

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Conventional one-dimensional (1D) chaotic map have a simple structure, which is easy to implement and has a low computational cost, but has a drawback that the range of chaotic behaviors is narrow and the distribution of key sequence is uniform. In order to overcome the drawback, we proposed an improved 1D chaotic system model and evaluate the proposed model through experiments with the logistic map and a sine map. Simulation and performance evaluation shows that the 1D chaotic map improved by the proposed model can overcome the existing defects sufficiently. We also proposed a color image LSB steganography algorithm using the improved 1D chaotic map. Through experiments, we confirmed the accuracy of the proposed color image LSB steganography algorithm. Experimental results proved that the algorithm has a better performance than the previous methods, showing an excellent performance against statistical analysis attacks. We also analyzed the effect of secret data type on the quality of stego image.

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  1. Information Center, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Pyongyang, 950003, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

    Chanil Pak & Kwangil An

  2. Institute of Information Science, Kim Il Sung University, Pyongyang, 999093, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

    Jonggun Kim

  3. Department of Information, Kim Hyong Jik University, Pyongyang, 950007, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

    Changho Kim

  4. Department of Engineering Machine, University of Mechanical Engineering, Pyongyang, 999093, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

    Kwanghun Kim

  5. Information Science College, Kim Il Sung Univerity, Pyongyang, 999093, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

    Cholmyong Pak

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Pak, C., Kim, J., An, K. et al. A novel color image LSB steganography using improved 1D chaotic map. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 1409–1425 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08103-0

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