Image Security using Steganography and Cryptography

Abstract

Cryptography and Steganography could be used to provide data security, each of them has a problem. Cryptography problem is that, the cipher text looks meaningless, so the attacker will interrupt the transmission or make more careful checks on the data from the sender to the receiver. Steganography problem is that once the presence of hidden information is revealed or even suspected, the message is become known . According to my proposed work in which both steganography and cryptography are combine and give good security for data. Firstly, the encrypted images has been hidden using image steganography method. Secondly, the Hash function algorithm has been modified and used to encrypt the stego image by using 128 digit hexa-key. Therefore, two levels of security have been provided using the proposed technique. In addition, the proposed technique provides high embedding capacity and better quality stego images.