An improved message capacity and security using divide and modulus function in spatial domain steganography

Abstract

Image Steganography is a technique for hiding messages into digital images, so messages cannot be perceived by the human senses. The two most important aspects of steganography techniques are the payload capacity and imperceptibility of embedded messages. This research proposes a method to explode secret messages using divide and modulus functions so that the message capacity embedded in a digital image can increase. The divide and modulus function can also improve message security because the messages are split into two part and sent separately. One part embedded and the other is stored as a key extraction. This method is done in a spatial domain. Spatial domains are steganographic techniques performed by manipulating pixel values directly. LSB is one of the most popular spatial domains proposed in this research. To measure the quality of imperceptibility are used PSNR and MSE. Based on the experimental results of this study proved that the capacity of embedded messages can increase twofold and keep maintaining the imperceptibility quality.