Steganography in audio using wavelet and DES

Abstract EN

In this paper, method of steganography in Audio is introduced for hiding secret data in audio media file (WAV).

Hiding in audio becomes a challenging discipline, since the Human Auditory System is extremely sensitive.

The proposed method is to embed the secret text message in frequency domain of audio file.

The proposed method contained two stages: the first embedding phase and the second extraction phase.

In embedding phase the audio file transformed from time domain to frequency domain using 1-level linear wavelet decomposition technique and only high frequency is used for hiding secreted message.

The text message encrypted using Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm.

Finally; the Least Significant bit (LSB) algorithm used to hide secret message in high frequency.

The proposed approach tested in different sizes of audio file and showed the success of hiding according to (PSNR) equation.