Payload Capacity Enhancement In The Field Of Steganography By Using Mobile Application Based Stego Technique

Chandrakant Badgaiyan*
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, C.S.I.T. Durg (C.G.), India.
Periodicity:April - June'2013
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jse.7.4.2320

Abstract

The data world has become completely digitized and information moves through channels from one place to other. In this scenario data security has caught everybody’s attention. Since private network is not the solution of data security all the time and none of the medium used for data transfer is fully secured which encouraged information hiding techniques like Encryption and Steganography. The advantage of steganography over encryption is that messages do not attract attention to themselves. Plainly visible encrypted messages—no matter how unbreakable—will arouse suspicion, hence cryptography protects the contents of a message only, whereas steganography can protect both messages and communicating parties. In all existing Steganographic techniques, there is a restriction with respect to payload capacity is that the amount of data to be embedded into cover file can go beyond the size of cover file. In this paper we are going to check the enhancement of the payload capacity of steganography in any covert communication by using Mobile Apps as cover file and a small modification in approach of hiding data into cover file. Millions of mobile applications are downloaded on mobile phones daily from all part of world. This technique has overcome the problem of other Steganographic techniques like limited payload capacity with added advantage of mobility and portability as it runs on mobile phones instead of PC. This technique is developed in J2ME platform, Mobile Application is a Maze game, payload type is image having various file formats and tested on Nokia Supernova 7610 series phones.

Keywords

J2ME, SMS, Encryption, Steganography, PNG, BITMAP, GIF, TIF.

How to Cite this Article?

Chandrakant Badgaiyan (2013). Payload Capacity Enhancement In The Field Of Steganography By Using Mobile Application Based Stego Technique.i-manager’s Journal on Software Engineering. 7(4), 30-35. https://doi.org/10.26634/jse.7.4.2320

References

[1]. Samir K Bandyopadhyay, Debnath Bhattacharyya, Debashis Ganguly, Swarnendu Mukherjee, Poulami Das, (2008). “A Tutorial Review on Steganography”, International conference 2008 at JIIT.
[2]. Ahsan, K., & Kundur, D. (2002). “Practical Data hiding in TCP/IP”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimedia Security at ACM Multimedia.
[3]. F.A.P. Petitcolas, R.J. Anderson, and M.G. Kuhn, (1999). "Information hiding-a survey," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 87, Issue 7, July 1999, pp. 1062-1078.
[4]. J.C. Judge, (2001). "Steganography: Past, Present, Future," SANS white paper, 30 November, 2001, http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/index.php?id=552.
[5]. N.J. Hopper, (2004). Toward a theory of Steganography, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July 2004.
[6]. M. Shirali-Shahreza, (2005). "An Improved Method for Steganography on Mobile Phone," WSEAS Transactions on Systems, Vol. 4, Issue 7, July 2005, pp. 955-957.
[7]. F. Hartung and B. Girod, (1997). "Copyright Protection in Video Delivery Networks by Watermarking of Pre-Compressed Video," Proceedings of Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques ECMAST '97', Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1242, Milan, Italy, May 1997, pp. 423-436.
[8]. M. Hassan Shirali-Shahreza, Mohammad Shirali-Shahreza, (2007). “Sending Mobile Software Activation Code by SMS Using Steganography”, Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, 2007, IIHMSP 2007, Third International Conference on 2007, pp. 554-557.
[9]. Abbas Cheddad, Joan Condell, Kevin Curran, Paul Mc Kevitt, (2010). "Digital image steganography: Survey and analysis of current methods" 2010, Elsevier, Signal Processing, pp. 727-752.
[10]. Rosziati Ibrahim, Law Chia Kee, (2012). “MoBiSiS: An Android-based Application for Sending Stego Image through MMS”, ICCGI 2012: The Seventh International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology.
[11]. Mohammad Shirali Shahreza, (2006). “Stealth Steganography in SMS”, IEEE Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2006 IFIP International Conference.
[12]. Mohammad Shirali-Shahreza, M. Hassan Shirali-Shahreza, (2007). “Text Steganography in SMS”, 2007 International Conference on Convergence Information Technology.
[13]. M. Hassan Shirali-Shahreza, Mohammad Shirali-Shahreza, (2008). “Steganography in SMS by Sudoku Puzzle”, Computer Systems and Applications, 2008. AICCSA 2008. IEEE/ACS International Conference, pp. 844-847.
[14]. Khan Farhan Rafat, (2009). “Enhanced Text Steganography in SMS”, Computer, Control and Communication, 2009, IC4 2009, 2nd International Conference, pp. 1-6.
[15]. W. Bender, D. Gruhl, N. Morimoto and A. Lu, (1996). “Techniques for data hiding”, IBM Systems Journal, vol. 35, Issue 3&4, 1996, pp. 313-336.
[16]. Zenon Hrytskiv, Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy, Yuriy Rytsav. “Cryptography and Steganography of Video information in modern communication”, Electronics and Energetics, Vol 11, No. 1, 115-225.
[17]. Chandrakant Badgaiyan, Ashish Kumar Dewangan, Bhupesh Kumar Pandey, Keerti Yeulkar, Kaushal Kumar Sinha, (2012). “A New Steganographic Technique: Image Hiding in Mobile Application”, International Journal of Advanced Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Vol 3, issue 4, 2012 pp 556-562.
[18]. Chandrakant Badgaiyan, Ashish Kumar Dewangan, (2012). “A New Method of Sending Mobile Software Activation Key Using SMS Module”, CIIT International Journal of Automation and Autonomous System, Vol 4, No 6, June 2012.
[19]. Chandrakant Badgaiyan, Mr. Ashish Kumar Dewangan, (2013). “Implementation of Mobile Based Steganography Technique on Non Touch Mobile Phones Using Password Protection”, International Journal of Information and Computation Technology, Volume 3, Number 2, 2013, Special issue.
[20]. Chandrakant Badgaiyan, Mr. Ashish Kumar Dewangan, (2012). “A Survey Paper on SMS Based Steganography
If you have access to this article please login to view the article or kindly login to purchase the article

Purchase Instant Access

Single Article

North Americas,UK,
Middle East,Europe
India Rest of world
USD EUR INR USD-ROW
Online 15 15

Options for accessing this content:
  • If you would like institutional access to this content, please recommend the title to your librarian.
    Library Recommendation Form
  • If you already have i-manager's user account: Login above and proceed to purchase the article.
  • New Users: Please register, then proceed to purchase the article.