SYNOPSIS

KOKAN GYANPEETH COLLAGE OF ARTS, COMMERCE AND SCIENCE

POJECT NAME: IMAGE STEGNOGRAPHY APK

TEAM MEMBERS NAMES ROLL NUMBERS

ROHAN DEVIDAS LOKHANDE 638
SOMESH CHANDRAKANT KALE 630

INTRODUCTION:

Steganography is the process of hiding a secret message within a larger one in such a way that someone
cannot know the presence or contents of the hidden message. Although related, Steganography is not
to be confused with Encryption, which is the process of making a message unintelligible—
Steganography attempts to hide the existence of communication. The main advantage of steganography
algorithm is because of its simple security mechanism. Because the steganographic message is
integrated invisibly and covered inside other harmless sources, it is very difficult to detect the message
without knowing the existence and the appropriate encoding scheme

Encoding Algorithm

 Firstly, the secret message that is extracted is compressed as the contents in the compressed string will
significantly hard to detect and read, furthermore it reduces the size of string.
 Secondly, the compressed string is encrypted with the secret key.
 Finally, encoding the encrypted message in the image. It uses LSB steganographic embedding to encode
data into an image. Once the message is encoded the process stops

Decoding Algorithm

 Firstly, decode the message from the encrypted image using LSB decoding.
 Secondly, decrypt the compressed message from the decoded message using the secret key.
 Finally, decompress the message to get the original compressed message.

Consider the following encoding, it is totally undetectable by human eyes.

LSB(Least Significant Bit) Embedding

The LSB is the lowest significant bit in the byte value of the image pixel. The LSB based image
steganography embeds the secret in the least significant bits of pixel values of the cover image (CVR).
The concept of LSB Embedding is simple. It exploits the fact that the level of precision in many image
formats is far greater than that perceivable by average human vision. Therefore, an altered image with
slight variations in its colors will be indistinguishable from the original by a human being, just by looking
at it. In conventional LSB technique, which requires eight bytes of pixels to store 1byte of secret data but
in proposed LSB technique, just four bytes of pixels are sufficient to hold one message byte. Rest of the
bits in the pixels remains the same.

Software Requirements:

 Android Studio Latest Version

 Internet Connection
 Java jdk
 Gradle
 Kotlin
 Android sdk API 17
 Virtual Emulator using android version 4.2 TO V5.1

Hardware Requirements:

 Processor – i5
 Hard Disk – 1 TB
 Memory – 4 Gb Minimum & 8 Gb maximum
 Android device version support – v4 to v8

Advantage:

The main advantage of steganography algorithm is because of its simple security mechanism. Because
the steganographic message is integrated invisibly and covered inside other harmless sources, it is very
difficult to detect the message without knowing the existence and the appropriate encoding scheme

Disadvantages:

Message is hard to recover if image is subject to attack such as translation and rotation. Hard to
detect as message and fundamental image data share same range. Significant damage to
picture appearance. Message difficult to recover

Applications:

The objective of steganography is to hide a secret message within a cover-media in such a way
that others cannot discern the presence of the hidden message. Technically in simple words
“steganography means hiding one piece of data within another