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A technique for digital steganography using chaotic maps

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Chaos has been applied extensively in secure communication over the last decade, but most of the chaotic security protocols defined, are cryptographically weak or slow to compute. Also, study of chaotic phenomena as application in security area is not discussed in detail. In this paper, we have intensely studied chaos, their influence in secure communications and proposed a steganography technique in spatial domain for digital images based upon chaotic maps. By applying chaos effectively in secure communication, the strength of the overall anticipated algorithm has been increased to a significant level. In addition, few security statistical analyses such as correlation, entropy, energy, contrast, homogeneity, peak signal to noise ratio, and mean square error have also been carried out and shown that it can survive against various differential attacks such as the known message attack, known cover attack, known stego attack, and stego only attack.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Military College of Signals, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Amir Anees & Adil Masood Siddiqui

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, HITEC University, Taxila, Pakistan

    Jameel Ahmed

  3. Department of Sciences and Humanities, National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Iqtadar Hussain

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Anees, A., Siddiqui, A.M., Ahmed, J. et al. A technique for digital steganography using chaotic maps. Nonlinear Dyn 75, 807–816 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-013-1105-3

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