LSBR-message-steganography

Simple implementation of Least Significant Bit Replacement(LSBR) message steganography

Requirements

• Windows 10 x64
• Python 3
• Pillow
• Numpy

*Set up anaconda environment with the provided environment.yml

Code execution

The following will run through the code execution in steps of inputs to enter and expected output

1. Execute python lsbr_msg.py in command prompt
2. A prompt will ask user to enter:

• 1 for message encoding
• 2 for message decoding

3. For message encoding(1), user will be prompted to enter the following in order*:

*After entering each prompt, press enter to submit

• Full path to image to be encoded(with extension)
• Message to be encoded
• Encoded image filename to be saved(without extension)

4. Embedded/stego image will be saved as a png image with the indicated filename
5. For message decoding(2), user will be prompted to enter:

• Full path to image to be decoded(with extension)

6. The embedded message(if any) will be shown as output

Sample images

• BOSS dataset: http://dde.binghamton.edu/download/ImageDB/BOSSbase_1.01.zip
• BOWS-2 dataset: http://bows2.ec-lille.fr/BOWS2OrigEp3.tgz