In today's digital environment, communication of sensitive information has become more challenging than ever before. Information Directorate and the State University of New York at Binghamton have jointly developed a two-fold approach to image security that uses both image ciphering and steganography or information hiding.
Chaotic maps provide excellent security and have many desired cryptographic qualities.
They are simple to implement which results in high encryption rates. The resulting innocent-looking picture can then be transmitted electronically without arousing suspicion, and will have the security of both the hidden message plus the encryption of the message. This document was prepared under the sponsorship of the U.S. government. Neither the U.S. government nor any person acting on behalf of the U.S. government assumes liability resulting from the use of the information contained in this document, or warrants that such use will be free from privately owned rights.