Implementation of Least Significant Bit Steganography to Secure Text Messages in Images
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Steganography is a technique of securing secret messages in other messages that are not known. Simulation of the steganography method using the Least Significant Bit technique is used to change the last bit in one byte of data by using a text message as the container medium. This study aims to implement the security of text messages in images using the Least Significant Bit technique which is supported by the steganography method. Simulation techniques are used to conduct studies using Cryptool2 which can describe the concept of cryptography. The results obtained from this study regarding the security of text message insertion into an image in *.jpg and *.png format with 5 sampling trials are (1) the encrypted image cannot be distinguished directly through human eyes, (2) there is an increase in file size the image after being encrypted with an average for five trials is 0.31%, this increase depends on the length of the text message and a key to be inserted, the longer the insertion, the larger the resulting file size, (3) The higher the resolution of the image where the description encryption is inserted, the longer the process required, (4) The simulation time of steganographic decryption is faster than steganographic encryption. The decryption simulation process is the same as 50% of the encryption process.
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