A Security Enhanced Robust Steganography Algorithm for Data Hiding

In this paper, a new robust steganography algorithm based on discrete cosine transform (DCT), Arnold transform and chaotic system is proposed. The chaotic system is used to generate a random sequence to be used for spreading data in the middle frequency band DCT coefficient of the cover image. The security is further enhanced by scrambling the secret data using Arnold Cat map before embedding. The recovery process is blind. A series of experiments is conducted to prove the security and robustness of the proposed algorithm. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves higher security and robustness against JPEG compression, addition of noise, low pass filtering and cropping attacks as compared to other existing algorithms for data hiding in the DCT domain.