TY  - JOUR
A1  - Banoori, Syeda Zahra
A1  - Khan, Wajidullah
A1  - Rahman, Shahid
A1  - Masood, Fahad
A1  - Salam, Abdu
A1  - Amin, Farhan
A1  - de la Torre, Isabel
A1  - Gracia Villar, Mónica
A1  - Garay, Helena
A1  - Choi, Gyu Sang
KW  - Image Steganography
KW  -  Image quality assessment metrics
KW  -  Histogram analysis
KW  -  Image
KW  -  LSB
KW  -  AES
KW  - 
Cryptography
KW  -  Image steganography
N2  - Image steganography is the process of hiding information, which can be text, image, or video inside a cover image. Recent steganography literature hasn?t addressed the problem of loss of secret information during extraction and reliability. Hence, to reduce information loss and provide reliability between in the basic criteria, Herein, we proposed a hybrid method that utilizes the least significant bit (LSB) substitution, transppsition, magic matrix, key and Advance Encrytion Standard (AES) algorithm. The LSB method decreases embedding errors by implementing a new value difference algorithm. In addition, to improves the reliability between the basic criterion for image steganography we used transposition, magic matrix, key and AES. The proposed method ensures a high-quality image format in the RGB color model to conceal the hidden message within the cover image which is jpeg. The proposed hybrid method performed several experiments and these are mainly based on quality assessment metrics such as PSNR, SSIM, RMSE, NCC, etc. which showed better results. The proposed method also analyzed with different perspectives in terms of different dimensions of images and different sizes of message text which showed better results. In addition, the performance of the proposed method showed better results based on (regular and singular) steganalysis, noise, and cropping attacks. The security analyses such as key space, differential, and statistical attacks show that the proposed scheme is secure and robust against channel noise and JPEG compression.
AV  - public
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-28140-0
JF  - Scientific Reports
TI  - An improved hybrid image steganography method using AES algorithm
ID  - uneatlantico17888
SN  - 2045-2322
Y1  - 2025/12//
ER  -