An enhanced Least Significant Bit steganography method using midpoint circle approach

To increase the security of messages sent over internet steganography is used. Various steganography techniques have been proposed so far. Least Significant Bit steganography is one such technique in which least significant bit of pixels of the image is replaced with data bits. This approach has the advantage that it is simplest one to understand, easy to implement and results in stego-images that contain embedded data as hidden. The disadvantage of Least Significant Bit is that it is vulnerable to steganalysis and is not secure at all. So as to make it more secure, the least significant bit algorithm is modified to work in different way. This proposed approach simply does not pick up least significant bits of pixel in a sequence but is combined with midpoint circle approach to choose which pixels are used to hide message. The goals of this paper are to present theoretic analysis of Least Significant Bit approach and to propose an advanced LSB embedding scheme that exhibits not only the advantages of LSB but also provides additional level of security. The scheme breaks the regular pattern of LSB, resulting in increased difficulty of steganalysis and thereby raising the security level.