A highly secure DNA based image steganography

Author

Das, Pritam ; Kar, Nirmalya

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol. Agartala, Agartala, India

fYear

2014

fDate

6-8 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

DNA steganography is one of the emerging technologies in the field of covert data transmission. In this paper we are proposing a novel DNA based steganography which uses images as primary cover media. A theoretical single stranded DNA (ssDNA) or oligonucleotide is extracted from the image which is used as the secondary cover providing a huge amount of background noise for the secret data. This is why we call it a dual cover steganography. The pixel sequence contributing the ssDNA codon series construction is determined by a two dimensional chaotic map. Performance of the algorithm is tested against several visual and statistical attacks and parameterized in terms of both security and capacity.

Keywords

DNA; biology computing; image coding; steganography; DNA based image steganography; covert data transmission; dual cover steganography; oligonucleotide; single stranded DNA; ssDNA codon series construction; statistical attack; two dimensional chaotic map; visual attack; Cryptography; DNA; Data mining; Histograms; Image color analysis; Logistics; Payloads; DNA; DNA algebra; LSB; PSNR; histogram; image; logistic map; neighbourhood; primer; steganography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Green Computing Communication and Electrical Engineering (ICGCCEE), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGCCEE.2014.6921419

Filename

6921419