Improvisation of Security aspect of Steganographic System by applying RSA Algorithm

The applications accessing multimedia systems and content over the internet have grown extremely in the earlier few years. Moreover, several end users or intruders can simply use tools to synthesize and modify valuable information. The safety of information over unsafe communication channel has constantly been a primary concern in the consideration of researchers. It became one of the most important problems for information technology and essential to safeguard this valuable information during transmission. It is also important to determine where and how such a multimedia file is confidential. Thus, a need exists for emerging technology that helps to defend the integrity of information and protected the intellectual property privileges of owners. Various approaches are coming up to safeguard the data from unauthorized person. Steganography and Cryptography are two different techniques for security data over communication network. The primary purpose of Cryptography is to create message concept unintelligible or ciphertext might produce suspicious in the mind of opponents. On the other hand, Steganography implant secrete message in to a cover media and hides its existence. As a normal practice, data embedding is employed in communication, image, text or multimedia contents for the purpose of copyright, authentication and digital signature etc. Both techniques provides the sufficient degree of security but are vulnerable to intruder’s attacks when used over unsecure communication channel. Attempt to combines the two techniques i.e. Cryptography and Steganography, did results in security improvement. The existing steganographic algorithms primarily focus on embedding approach with less attention to preprocessing of data which offer flexibility, robustness and high security level. Our proposed model is based on Public key cryptosystem or RSA algorithms in which RSA algorithm is used for message encryption in encoding function and the resultant encrypted image is hidden into cover image employing Least Significant Bit (LSB) embedding method. Keywords—Image Steganography; Cryptography; LSB insertion; Public key Cryptosystem; RSA algorithm