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MINI PROJECT
ON
STEGANOGRAPHY
Submitted to CS Department, Institute of Engineering and
Technology,Bundelkhand University,Jhansi,For the fulfilment of the degree of
B.Tech(Computer Science &Engineering)

INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

(Vth SEM-2015-2016)

Er.B.B.Niranjan Er.Vijay Kumar Verma

Lecturer Head of Department
Computer Sc.& Engg. Dept. Computer Sc.& Engg. Dept
IET,BU,JHANSI(UP) IET,BU,JHANSI(UP)

Er.Vijay Kumar Verma 1.SHIVAM PORWAL(131234040048)

(Mini Project Incharge) 2.NIKITA BISWAS (131234040028)
Computer Sc.& Engg. Dept. 3.NIHAL RAWAT (131234040027)

IET,BU,JHANSI(UP) 4. KUSHAL SINGH (131234040021)

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INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY,

BUNDELKHAND UNIVERSITY,JHANSI

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the project report entitled IMAGE
STEGANOGRAPHYis a bonafide record of the project work done
by the students:
1.SHIVAM PORWAL (131234040048)

2.NIKITA BISWAS (131234040028)

3.NIHAL RAWAT (131234040027)

4. KUSHAL S. KUSHWAHA (131234040021)

In partial fulfilment of the requirement for the 5th semester of
COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING in Institute of
Engineering Technology,
Bundelkhand University ,Jhansi.

Er.Vijay Kumar Verma Er.B.B.Niranjan

(Mini Project Incharge) (Mini Project Guide)
Computer Sc.& Engg. Dept. Computer Sc.& Engg.
Dept
IET,BU,JHANSI(UP) IET,BU,JHANSI(UP)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This Project itself is an acknowledgement to the
inspiration, drive and technical assistance contributed by many
individuals. This project would have never seen the light of this
day without the help and guidance I have received.

I express my gratitude to Er. Vijay Kumar Verma ,

Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Institute
of Engineering & Technology, Bundelkhand University ,Jhansi ,
for providing me with excellent infrastructure and awesome
environment that laid potentially strong foundation for my
professional life .

I own an incalculable debt of my all staffs of

Department of Computer Science & Engineering for their direct
and indirect help.

I extend my heartfelt thanks to my parents, teacher,

friends, and well-wishers for their support and timely help.

Shivam porwal(131234040048) Nikita Biswas(131234040028)

Nihal Rawat(131234040027) Kushal S.Kushwaha(131234040021)
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DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the project work entitled STEGANOGRAPHY

Is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for

the 5th semester
B.Tech(Computer Science & Engineering) and it is a
report of the original work done by me during the period
of July December in Institute of Engineering &
Technology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi.

Shivam porwal(131234040048) Nikita Biswas (131234040028)

Nihal Rawat (131234040027) Kushal Singh kushwaha(131234040021)

Place: Jhansi
Date: ---------------
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CONTENTS
Chapter no Name Page No

1 Steganography at
Large
1.1 Introduction
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1.2 Where hidden data
hides
1.3 What does the project
do
2 Problem Statement 10

3 Objective 11

4 Module Description
4.1 Interface Module
Diagram 12
4.2Data Flow Diagram
5 Software Support
5.1 Technical details 15

6 Image Steganography
6.1 Implementation
6.2 Encoding process 16
6.3 Decoding process

7 LSB Algorithm
6.1 Implementation 18

8 User Manual 20

9 Summary 25

10 Bibliography 26
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Abstract

Steganography is the art of hiding the fact that

communication is taking place, by hiding
information in other information. Many different
carrier file formats can be used, but digital images
are the most popular because of their frequency on
the Internet. For hiding secret information in
images, there exists a large variety of stenographic
techniques some are more complex than others and
all of them have respective strong and weak points.
Different applications have different requirements
of the steganography technique used. For example,
some applications may require absolute invisibility
of the secret information, while others require a
larger secret message to be hidden. This project
intends to give an overview of image steganography,
its uses and techniques. It also supports
steganography in Audio files. For a more secure
approach, the project encrypts the message using
secret key and then sends it to the receiver. The
receiver then decrypts the message to get the
original one.
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1. Steganography at Large

1.1 Introduction

Steganography derives from the Greek word steganos,

meaning covered or secret, and graphy (writing or drawing).
On the simplest level, steganography is hidden writing,
whether it consists of invisible ink on paper or copyright
information hidden in an audio file.

Where cryptography scrambles a message into a code to

obscure its meaning, steganography hides the message
entirely. These two secret communication technologies can
be used separately or togetherfor example, by first
encrypting a message, then hiding it in another file for
transmission. As the world becomes more anxious about the
use of any secret communication, and as regulations are
created by governments to limit uses of encryption,
steganographys role is gaining prominence.
What Steganography essentially does is exploit human
perception, human senses are not trained to look for files
that have information hidden inside of them, although
there are programs available that can do what is called
Steganalysis (Detecting use of Steganography.)

Steganography hide the secrete message within the host data set and
presence imperceptible and is to be reliably communicated to a
receiver. The host data set is purposely corrupted, but in a covert
way, designed to be invisible to an information analysis.
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1.2 Where Hidden Data hides?

It is possible to alter graphic or sound files

slightly without losing their overall viability for the
viewer and listener. With audio, you can use bits of
file that contain sound not audible to the human ear.
With graphic images, you can remove redundant bits
of color from the image
and still produce a picture that looks intact to human
eye and is difficult to discern from its original.

It is in those bits that stego hides its data. A

stego program uses an algorithm, to embed data in
an image or sound file, and a password scheme to
allow you to retrieve information.

1.3 What does the project do?

- Hiding the text message in an image file .

- Encryption of the same message, so as to

support more secure steganography.
- The decoding of the message, decryption and
source message retrieval are also supported.
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2. Problem Statement:
The former consists of linguistic or language forms of
hidden writing. The later, such as invisible ink, try of hide
messages physically. One disadvantage of linguistic
steganography is that users must equip themselves to have
a good knowledge of linguistry. In recent years, everything
is trending toward digitization. And with the development
of the internet technology, digital media can be transmitted
conveniently over the network. Therefore, messages can be
secretly carried by digital media by using the
steganography techniques, and then be transmitted
through the internet rapidly

Steganography is the art of hiding the fact that

communication is taking place, by hiding information in
other information. Many different carrier file formats can
be used, but digital images are the most popular because of
their frequency on the internet. For hiding secret
information in images, there exists a large variety of
steganography techniques some are more complex than
others and all of them have respective strong and weak
points.

So we prepare this application, to make the information

hiding more simple and user friendly.
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3. Objective

The goal of steganography is covert communication. So, a

fundamental requirement of this steganography system is that
the hider message carried by stego-media should not be sensible
to human beings.

The other goal of steganography is to avoid drawing suspicion

to the existence of a hidden message. This approach of
information hiding technique has recently became important in a
number of application area

This project has following objectives:

To product security tool based on steganography

techniques.

To explore techniques of hiding data using encryption

module of this project

To extract techniques of getting secret data using

decryption module.

Steganography sometimes is used when encryption is not

permitted. Or, more commonly, steganography is used to
supplement encryption. An encrypted file may still hide
information using steganography, so even if the encrypted file is
deciphered, the hidden message is not seen.
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4. Module Description

Home:

This page will have the home display of the software and it will
have the link to other modules also. Once the module is open it can
then link to the database and retrieve the settings from the database.
This module is also responsible to apply the settings on the other
modules. This module will have only database reading capabilities and
not writing.

Hide / Encrypt the data :

Create a File using the Text editor : This module will be used
to create a file that will contain the Plaint text with no
formatting. Also the file created under this module will not be
saved in the system and can and will only be saved as a
Encrypted (Visual encryption) or will be concealed under an
image file.

Import file: In this module we will be able to import a file from

the computer and that will be concealed under an image file.

Unhide / Decrypt the data:

Import file: This module will have the ability to import file(s). It
will be able to decrypt, Unhide the file from the image file and it
will also be able to retrieve the message from the image files
generated by the encryption module using the Visual
Cryptography.
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4.1 Interface Module Diagram :

Home Page

Unhide / User interface

Hide / Encrypt
Decrypt the Preferences
the data
data setup

Create a File DB to save

using the Text Import a file Import a file User
editor preferences
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4.2 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM

Level-0 Diagram :

Database

Input Process Output

Level-1 Diagram :

User Databas
preferences e

Home

Hide Unhide
/Encrypt /Decrypt

Proce Proce
ss ss

Input Output Input Output

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5. Software Support
Operating system:
Windows or GNU/Linux
JDK (1.7) :
The Java Development Kit (JDK) is an implementation of
either one of the Java SE, Java EE or Java ME platforms released by
Oracle Corporation in the form of a binary product aimed at Java
developers on Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X or Windows.
Java is fast, secure, and reliable. I am using Java because of some
the most desirable features of Java. Some of those are list below-
Security
Portability
Java Architecture
Object-Oriented Robust
JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)

Swing :
Swing, which is an extension library to the AWT, includes new
& improved components that enhance the look and functionality of
GUIs. Swing can be used to build Standalone swing GUI Applications as
well as Servlets and Applets. It employs model/view design
architecture. Swing is more portable and more flexible than AWT.
Swing is built on top of AWT and is entirely written in Java, using
AWTs lightweight component support. The architecture of Swing
components makes it easy to customize both their appearance and
behavior.
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6. Image Steganography
6.1 Implementation:
- Technical Details:
o Using java.awt.Image, ImageIO
o The package contains all the necessary classes and
methods along with interfaces that are necessary for the
manipulation of the images.
6.2 The Encoding Process:
- The steganography technique used is LSB coding.
- The offset of the image is retrieved from its header.
- That offset is left as it is to preserve the integrity of the
header, and from the next byte, we start our encoding
process.
- For encoding, we first take the input carrier file i.e. an image
file and then direct the user to the selection of the text file.
- Creation of User Space:
o User Space is created for preserving the original file, so
that all the modifications are done in the user space.
o In the object of BufferedImage, using ImageIO.read
method we take the original image.
o Using createGraphics and drawRenderedImage method
of Graphics class, we create our user space in
BufferedImage object.
- The text file is taken as input and separated in stream of
bytes.
- Now, each bit of these bytes is encoded in the LSB of each
next pixel.
- And, finally we get the final image that contains the encoded
message and it is saved, at the specified path given by user,
in PNG format using ImageIO.write method.
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6.3 The Decoding Process:

The offset of the image is retrieved from its header.
- Create the user space using the same process as in the
Encoding.
- Using getRaster() and getDataBuffer() methods of
Writable Raster and DataBufferByte classes. The data of
image is taken into byte array.
- Using above byte array, the bit stream of original text
file, is retrieved into the another byte array.
- And above byte array is written into the decoded text
file, which leads to the original message.

Start Application

Encryption Decryption

Image Message Image file

file

BMP image file

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7. LSB ALGORITHM
7.1 Implementation:

Structure of image files is that an image is created from pixels

that any pixel created from three colors ( red, green and blue
said RGB) each color of a pixel is one byte information that
shows the density of that color. Merging these three color makes
every color that we see in these pictures. We know that every
byte in computer science is created from 8 bit that first bit is
Most-Significant-Bit (MSB) and last bit Least-Significant-Bit
(LSB), the idea of using Steganography science is in this place;
we use LSB bit for writing our security information inside
pictures. So if we just use last layer (8st layar) of information, we
should change the last bit of pixels, in other hands we have 3 bits
in each pixel so we have 3*hight*width bits memory to write
our information. But before writing our data we must write
name of data(file), size of name of data & size of data. We can do
this by assigning some first bits of memory (8st layer).
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Encryption Process
IMAGE FILE INFORMATION FILE

ENCRYPT IMAGE FILE

Decryption Process

ENCRYPT IMAGE FILE

INFORMATION FILE IMAGE FILE

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8. User Manual

The Embed stegonographic message box will

get opened where the message is to be
embedded
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Then click on the OPEN tab.

Type the message to be embedded

Select the original image and than click to

EMBED tab.
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Than click to SAVE INTO NEW FILE tab .

Staganographed image get formed.
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To decode steganographic image.

Select the open tab.

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Select the steganographed image

and click the DECODE tab.
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The decode message will displayed in

DECODED MESSAGE box.
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9. Summary

Steganography is a really interesting subject and outside of the

mainstream cryptography and system administration that most
of us deal with day after day.

Steganography can be used for hidden communication. We have

explored the limits of steganography theory and practice. We
printed out the enhancement of the image steganography system
using LSB approach to provide a means of secure
communication. A stego-key has been applied to the system
during embedment of the message into the cover image.

This steganography application software provided for the

purpose to how to use any type of image formats to hiding any
type of files inside their. The master work of this application is in
supporting any type of pictures without need to convert to
bitmap, and lower limitation on file size to hide, because of
using maximum memory space in pictures to hide the file.

Steganography, like cryptography, will play an increasing role in

the future of secure communication in the digital world.
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10. Bibliography
Books AND Whitepapers
1. T. Morkel Information and Computer Security
Architecture (ICSA) Research group
University of Pretoria, 0002, Pretoria,
South Africa

2. V. K. Pachghare, Cryptography and Information

Security , Prentice-hall Of India Pvt Ltd
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www.idrbt.ac.in/
(Institute of Development and Research in Banking
Technology,Hyderabad)

www.oracle.com


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