Image security system using hybrid cryptosystem

Abstract

This work presents and describes a novel method to hide messages in images in a hybrid manner, as
steganography is combined with quantum cryptography. Through stimulating and implementing this
hybrid approach, the least significant bit (LSB) substitution is employed for hiding secret messages within
cover images that consist of three bands (Red, Green and Blue), after which the output is encrypted using
quantum one-time pad encryption. The models are illustrated explicitly and tested. In addition, the test
analysis uses a steganalysis tool called StegExpose to detect LSB steganography in images. The
experimental results proved that the image hiding is reliably secure and undetectable, and hence the
proposed new hybrid model provides a sufficient security level as well as we have tested the proposed
system using robust state-of- the-art steganalysis techniques and found the low payload threshold
maintained in the proposed system produces a high margin of communication security safety. No payload
files were detected (0% detections), despite each file containing the entire content of the information as
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