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Table 1 (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) are cipher text blocks, cipher text sub-blocks, Brain disease cover image blocks, cover image block into bits, and diagonal queues respectively

From: Diagonal queue medical image steganography with Rabin cryptosystem

1. Suppose we have the following data

     a. N blocks of cipher text: 1 × 16

                  (a) Cipher text blocks

     b. 4 sub-blocks of each N block of cipher text: 1 × 4

                  (b) Cipher text sub-blocks

      c. M block of 8 pixels each, from Brain disease cover image: 1 × 8

                  (c) Brain disease cover image blocks

      d. M block of 64 bits each. We can obtain this by converting the above block into bits: 8 × 8

                  (d) Cover image block into bits

2. From the above matrix, we have 15 diagonal queues from right to left inserted bits, and among the 5th–15th diagonal queues are eligible for secret cipher data embedding

                  (e) Diagonal queues

3. The above-shown bold bits are the diagonal queue LSB bits (i.e., 8th to 5th), which can be swapped with the cipher text bits using FIFO property of queue

4. Now, we will select one of these eligible diagonal queues, dynamically

5. We will also select one block from the N blocks and sub-blocks dynamically

6. We will then put the selected ciphertext bits in selected diagonal queue at 8th to 5th bit LSB position sequentially