SECURE DATA TRANSMISSION USING STEGANOGRAPHY AND ENCRYPTION TECHNIQUE
SECURE DATA TRANSMISSION USING
STEGANOGRAPHY AND ENCRYPTION
TECHNIQUE
Shamim Ahmed Laskar and Kattamanchi Hemachandran
Department of Computer Science
Assam University, Silchar, India
ABSTRACT
With the spread of digital data around the world through the internet, the security of the data has raised a
concern to the people. Many methods are coming up to protect the data from going into the hands of the
unauthorized person. Steganography and cryptography are two different techniques for data security. The
main purpose in cryptography is to make message concept unintelligible, while steganography aims to hide
secret message. Digital images are excellent carriers of hidden information. We propose a method of
combining steganography and cryptography for secret data communication. In this paper, we propose a
high-performance JPEG steganography along with a substitution encryption methodology. The approach
uses the discrete cosine transform (DCT) technique which used in the frequency domain for hiding
encrypted data within image. Experimental results show that the visual and the statistical values of the
image with encrypted data before the insertion are similar to the values after the insertion thus reduces the
chance of the confidential message being detected and enables secret communication. The effectiveness of
the proposed method has been estimated by computing Mean square error (MSE) and Peak Signal to Noise
Ratio (PSNR).
KEYWORDS
Steganography, Cryptography, plaintext, encryption, decryption, ciphertext, substitution cipher,
discrete cosine transform, JPEG, quantization, Mean square error and Peak Signal to Noise
Ratio
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