LSB TECHNIQUE FOR IMAGE AND TEXT HIDING USING THE RED AND GREEN CHANNELS

Recently, Information hiding has an important role to protect data via the Internet from malicious attack, Steganography - which is the art of hiding data- uses a cover file to hide data by utilizing different schemas to prevent it from being detected. There are many different carrier file formats used to hid data, but digital images are the most popular because of their frequency on the Internet. This paper proposes an algorithm that hides a text file, a gray image, or both within a JPEG colored image by using a Least Significant Bits (LSB) steganography technique. This paper proposes a one tool to shrouds either a content record or a dark picture or both inside a JPEG shaded picture The algorithm makes use of each color channel separately where a gray picture will be concealed in the Red channel, while the content document will be covered up in the Green channel. It also uses the adjacent pixels in each channel for the process of hiding which results in fast process of both concealing and decoding the original content. This proposed algorithm has been implemented in MATLAB R2010a using basic image proceeding techniques. The system is then tested to see the viability of the proposed algorithm. Various sizes of data are stored inside the images. The Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and the Mean Square error (MSE) are calculated for each of the tested images. The proposed algorithm was also compared to another similar algorithm and the results showed. The proposed algorithm scored higher PSNR and lower MSE.