A new transform domain steganography based on modified logistic chaotic map for color images

Abstract

The art and science of hiding information by embedding messages in various type of digital media is called steganography. This method performs by replacing bits of multimedia files (such as graphics, sounds and texts) with bits of secret message. The information that embeds in the cover media can be plain text, cipher text and even images. Steganography sometimes is used when encryption is not permitted or more commonly, steganography is supplement for encryption. By using steganography, if the encrypted file is deciphered, the encrypted file may still hide information. This paper is proposed a new transform domain steganography method based on integer wavelet transform (IWT) for digital images and also it used a chaotic map. This map is a modified logistic map which it increases the key length and security of proposed method. Experimental results shows that the proposed method has high capability in hiding information in any images which used as a cover media. Visual quality of image after embedding process is desirable due to Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) measures. Also the NIST, DIEHARD and ENT tests suite show the proposed chaotic map randomness and sensitivity to smallest changes.