Semi Random Position Based Steganography for Resisting Statistical Steganalysis

Steganography is the branch of information hiding for secret communication. The simplest and widely used steganography is the LSB based approach due to its visual quality with high embedding capacity. However, LSB based steganography techniques are not secure against statistical steganalysis mainly χ2 attack and Regular Singular (RS) attack. These two staganalysis can easily estimate the hidden message length. This work propose a LSB based steganography technique where first a location is obtained randomly based on the bit pattern (except LSB) of a cover pixel using linear probing and embed a secret bit into LSB. This technique makes the stego-image completely secure against both χ2 attack and RS attack.

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