The Science and Information (SAI) Organization
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Journals
  • Conferences
  • Contact Us

Publication Links

  • IJACSA
  • Author Guidelines
  • Publication Policies
  • Digital Archiving Policy
  • Promote your Publication
  • Metadata Harvesting (OAI2)

IJACSA

  • About the Journal
  • Call for Papers
  • Editorial Board
  • Author Guidelines
  • Submit your Paper
  • Current Issue
  • Archives
  • Indexing
  • Fees/ APC
  • Reviewers
  • Apply as a Reviewer

IJARAI

  • About the Journal
  • Archives
  • Indexing & Archiving

Special Issues

  • Home
  • Archives
  • Proposals
  • Guest Editors
  • SUSAI-EE 2025
  • ICONS-BA 2025
  • IoT-BLOCK 2025

Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC)

  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit your Paper/Poster
  • Register
  • Venue
  • Contact

Computing Conference

  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit your Paper/Poster
  • Register
  • Venue
  • Contact

Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys)

  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit your Paper/Poster
  • Register
  • Venue
  • Contact

Future Technologies Conference (FTC)

  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit your Paper/Poster
  • Register
  • Venue
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Editorial Board
  • Guidelines
  • Submit
  • Current Issue
  • Archives
  • Indexing
  • Fees
  • Reviewers
  • Subscribe

DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01308104
PDF

Enhanced Security: Implementation of Hybrid Image Steganography Technique using Low-Contrast LSB and AES-CBC Cryptography

Author 1: Edwar Jacinto G
Author 2: Holman Montiel A
Author 3: Fredy H. Martínez S

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 13 Issue 8, 2022.

  • Abstract and Keywords
  • How to Cite this Article
  • {} BibTeX Source

Abstract: Now-a-days, sensitive and confidential information needs to be exchanged over open, public, and not secure networks such as the Internet. For this purpose, some information security techniques combine cryptographic and steganographic algorithms and image processing techniques to exchange information securely. Therefore, this research presents the implementation of an algorithm that combines the AES-CBC cryptographic technique with the LSB steganographic technique, which is statistically enhanced by image processing by looking for low-contrast areas where the encrypted information will be stored. This hybrid algorithm was developed to send a plaintext file hidden in an image in BMP format, so the changes in the image are invisible to the human eye and undetectable in possible steganographic analysis. The implementation was performed using Python and its libraries PyCryptodome for encryption and CV2 for image processing. As a result, it was found that the hybrid algorithm implemented has three layers of security over a plaintext encrypted and hidden in a digital image, which makes it difficult to break the secrecy of the information exchanged in a stego-image file. Additionally, the execution times of the hybrid algorithm were evaluated for different sizes of plaintext and digital image files.

Keywords: Steganography; cryptography; LSB; low contrast areas; AES-CBC algorithm

Edwar Jacinto G, Holman Montiel A and Fredy H. Martínez S, “Enhanced Security: Implementation of Hybrid Image Steganography Technique using Low-Contrast LSB and AES-CBC Cryptography” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 13(8), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01308104

@article{G2022,
title = {Enhanced Security: Implementation of Hybrid Image Steganography Technique using Low-Contrast LSB and AES-CBC Cryptography},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01308104},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01308104},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {13},
number = {8},
author = {Edwar Jacinto G and Holman Montiel A and Fredy H. Martínez S}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

IJACSA

Upcoming Conferences

IntelliSys 2025

28-29 August 2025

  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Future Technologies Conference 2025

6-7 November 2025

  • Munich, Germany

Healthcare Conference 2026

21-22 May 2026

  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Computing Conference 2026

9-10 July 2026

  • London, United Kingdom

IntelliSys 2026

3-4 September 2026

  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Computer Vision Conference 2026

15-16 October 2026

  • Berlin, Germany
The Science and Information (SAI) Organization
BACK TO TOP

Computer Science Journal

  • About the Journal
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit Paper
  • Indexing

Our Conferences

  • Computing Conference
  • Intelligent Systems Conference
  • Future Technologies Conference
  • Communication Conference

Help & Support

  • Contact Us
  • About Us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

© The Science and Information (SAI) Organization Limited. All rights reserved. Registered in England and Wales. Company Number 8933205. thesai.org