A Reversible Data Hiding Scheme through Encryption using Rotated Stream Cipher

V. M. Manikandan

doi:10.7494/csci.2021.22.2.3843

Authors

V. M. Manikandan SRM University AP, Andhra Pradesh, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6903-7563

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7494/csci.2021.22.2.3843

Keywords:

reversible data hiding, image encryption, image decryption, secure data transmission, medical image transmission

Abstract

The research in the domain of reversible data hiding got much attention in recent years due to its wide applications in medical image transmission and cloud computing. Reversible data hiding during image encryption is a recently emerged framework for hiding secret data into an image during the image encryption process. In this manuscript, we propose a new reversible data hiding through encryption scheme which will ensure a high embedding rate without bringing any additional overhead of key handling. The proposed algorithm can use any secure symmetric encryption scheme, and the encryption and/or decryption key should be shared with the receiver for data extraction and image recovery. As per the proposed scheme, the data hider can hide three-bits of secret message in an image block of size $B\times B$ pixels. The data extraction image recovery will be carried out by analyzing the closeness between adjacent pixels. The simulation of the new scheme on the USC-SIPI dataset shows that the proposed scheme outperforms the well-known existing schemes in embedding rate and bit error rate.

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Author Biography

V. M. Manikandan, SRM University AP, Andhra Pradesh, India

Dr. V. M. Manikandan is currently working as an Asst. Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at SRM University AP, Andhra Pradesh, India. He did his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram, Tamilnadu, India in 2018 after his M.Tech in Software Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India. He is an Associate Member of The Institution of Engineers (India). His current research focused on the design and development of reversible data hiding schemes in images, digital image watermarking and copy-move forgery detection from images.

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