Steganalysis of LSB encoding in color images

Author

Fridrich, Jessica ; Long, M.

Author_Institution

Center for Intelligent Syst., State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, NY

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1279

Abstract

Analyzes the security of least significant bit (LSB) embedding for hiding messages in high-color-depth digital images. We introduce a powerful steganalytic technique that enables us to reliably detect the presence of a pseudorandom binary message randomly spread in a color image. We estimate the probability of both false detections and missing a secret message. The method is based on statistical analysis of the image colors in the RGB cube. It is shown that, even for secret message capacities of 0.1-0.3 bits per pixel, it is possible to achieve a high degree of detection reliability

Keywords

cryptography; image coding; image colour analysis; probability; reliability; statistical analysis; LSB encoding; RGB cube; color depth; color images; detection reliability; digital images; false detection probability; least significant bit embedding; message hiding; missed message probability; randomly spread pseudorandom binary message detection; secret message capacity; security analysis; statistical analysis; steganalysis; steganography; Digital images; Image analysis; Image coding; Image color analysis; Intelligent systems; Pixel; Power system security; Probability; Scattering; Steganography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6536-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2000.871000

Filename

871000