A Security Enhanced Approach For Digital Image Steganography Using DWT And RC4 Encryption
 | International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) |  |
| © - June Issue 2013 by IJCTT Journal | ||
| Volume-4 Issue-6 | ||
| Year of Publication : 2013 | ||
| Authors :Amritha.G, Meethu Varkey |
Amritha.G, Meethu Varkey"A Security Enhanced Approach For Digital Image Steganography Using DWT And RC4 Encryption"International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT),V4(6):1710-1716 June Issue 2013 .ISSN 2231-2803.www.ijcttjournal.org. Published by Seventh Sense Research Group.
Abstract: - Steganography is the art of hiding the existence of data in another transmission medium to achieve secret communication . Steganography method used in this paper is based on biometrics, ie biometric steganography. And the biometric feature used to implement steganography is skin tone region of images. Here secret data is embedded within skin region of image that will provide an excellent secure location for data hiding. Before embedding secret data is needed to be encrypted using stream cipher encryption scheme RC4.Skin color tone detection is performed by using HSV color space.DWT is the frequency domain in which this biometric steganography is implemented.Secret data is embedded in one of the high frequency subband by tracing the number of skin pixels in that band. . Different embedding steps are applied on the cropped region of the image.ie value of this cropped region will act as a key at the decoder side. This study shows that by adopting an object oriented steganography mechanism, in the sense that, we track skin tone objects in image, we get a higher security and satisfactory PSNR obtained.
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Keywords - Biometrics,Skin detection,DWT,cropping,PSNR,RC4