A Novel Approach to Secure Communication Using Audio Steganography

Abstract:

The digital information revolution has brought important changes in our society and life. Nowadays, large amount of data is transmitted over the network and if the data that is being transmitted is important, one should use secure technique like steganography to transmit it. Steganography is a method of hiding a secret message in a cover media such as text, image, audio etc. in a way that hides the existence of the secret data. This paper introduces new method for audio steganography. The proposed method works on the basis of low bit blind encoding scheme which is used to embed secret data into non-silent samples of wav audio file. Robustness and performance of the proposed scheme is investigated by performing experiments on different audio signals.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 403-408)
• Pages: 963-969
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.403-408.963
• Online since: November 2011
• Authors: Mayank Srivastava, Mohd Qasim Rafiq
• Keywords: Audio Steganography, Cover Object, Human Auditory System (HAS), Low Bit Coding, Steganography, Stego Signal

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