Digital Invisible Ink Writing: Imperceptibility &amp; Security Enhancement Technique
Creators: name: Abraham, Sylvester
name: Vedešin, Anton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Steganography, Cryptography, Steganalysis, Stego image, payload, imperceptibility, and least significant bit (LSB)

description: In this era of accelerated change of overwhelming complexity and tremendous competition with the ever increase of malicious attacks, adversaries of different types continue to pose a challenge on private sector and government documents in the cyber world and as far as the world of technology that we live is concerned, the author asserts that security should not just be perceived as a slogan but as a way of life. The HackersNews Media has reported that financial institutions are increasingly dealing with unauthorized data exfiltration attempts in which bad actors smuggles data like credit card numbers out past the organization’s detection systems or bypassing their radar by masking the information in unremarkable files. Even to this day, steganography is still practiced. Recent news posted on TheHackersNews portal has it that – Hackers of ecommerce website have now devised new approach for concealing stolen credit card information within an image - no doubt, this is another form of steganography). This paper explores steganography from its earliest instances, problems of steganography techniques, analyse image files formats for steganographic content, potential future application, security and payload or image perceptibility enhancement techniques. In addition, a demonstration of brute force attack was implemented against the stego image, in order to test the robustness of the proposed system. It was also observed that .png image are considered to be more suitable for steganography. i.e Lossless image with a high degree of verbosity or redundancy. In this scenario, redundancy is termed as the amount of bits streams or data can be skipped without affecting the actual significance and purpose of information.
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