Implementation and Efficiency of Stegano-Graphic Techniques in Bitmapped Images and Embedded Data Survivability Against Lossy Compression Schemes [Spiral-bound]

Daniel L. Currie (Author), Hannelore Campbell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1996

This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A535113. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The term steganography is descriptive of techniques used to covertly communicate by embedding a secret message within an overt message. Such techniques can be used to hide data within digital images with little or no visible change in the perceived appearance of the image and can be exploited to covertly export sensitive information. This thesis explores the data capacity of bitmapped image files and the feasibility of devising a coding technique which can protect embedded data from the deleterious effects of lossy compression. In its simplest form, steganography in images is accomplished by replacing the least significant bits of the pixel bytes with the data to be embedded. Since images are frequently compressed for storage or transmission, it is desirable that a steganographic technique include some form of redundancy coding to counter the errors caused by lossy compression algorithms. Specifically, the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEGi) compression algorithm, while producing only a small amount of visual distortion, introduces a relatively large number of errors in the bitmap data. These errors will effectively garble any noncoded steganographically embedded data.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 88 pages
• Publisher: Storming Media (1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423579364
• ISBN-13: 978-1423579366