Steganography Method for Hiding Data In The Name_Field of A List of Names Created by Microsoft Word

Authors

  • Amosa Babalola  Department of Computer Science, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Nigeria
  • Longe Oluwaseun  Department of Computer Science, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Nigeria
  • Onyeka Ndidi  Department of Computer Science, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Nigeria
  • Oluwatosin Adefunke  Department of Computer Science, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Nigeria

Keywords:

Steganography, Unused Blocks, Retrieval, Microsoft Word.

Abstract

This work presents a new algorithm to hide data inside data inside the name_field of a list of names created by Microsoft Word using steganography technique. The algorithm was designed to hide the data inputted within a record of a list of names created by Microsoft word so as to protect the privacy of the data. The system uses three algorithms namely: Algorithm-1 to search for the unused block/spaces in a record of list of names. Algorithm-2: to hide data in the unused blocks/spaces and Algorithm-3: to extract the hidden data. When the algorithms were tested with a few list of names created by Microsoft Word, it was discovered that the records with the hidden data in Microsoft Word do not have a noticeable distortion on it (as seen by the naked eyes). It was also tested using PSNR value, based on these, the PSNR value of each of the list of names created by Microsoft word has a higher PSNR value.

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2018-02-28

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Amosa Babalola, Longe Oluwaseun, Onyeka Ndidi, Oluwatosin Adefunke, " Steganography Method for Hiding Data In The Name_Field of A List of Names Created by Microsoft Word , IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp.1852-1857, January-February-2018.