Integrated Lossy and Lossless Compression with LSB Insertion Technique in Steganography

This paper discusses a data hiding application using steganography. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a two phase steganography application that allows the user to first compress the information into ASCII form using our novel compression technique (compression technique utilizing reference points coding([1,2])) then embed the information into the carrier using least significant bit (LSB) algorithms. An additional function to this compression method is that it will also allow the user to first choose whether to compress the information in lossy or lossless format before embedding the information into the carrier. The flexibility of this compression technique will allow the user to hide information with a customizable compression phase. By reducing the size for the hidden message, the required bits to embed the message are lessened, and thus the possibility of human visual detection will also be reduced.