Implementation of Security Enhanced Image Steganography with the Incorporation of Modified RSA Algorithm

In this paper, security enhanced image steganography is described. To enhance the security, cryptographic algorithm, Modified RSA in its symmetric form, is used to encrypt the message into cipher text and vice versa. The sender will encrypt the message with a key and then embed the cipher text into an image and send the image object via any transmission medium like internet along with the key to the receiver, so that the receiver can extract the cipher text from the image and then decrypt by the key that the sender have sent. The result was satisfactory and fulfilled the purpose but there arose many major issues like, visibility of the cipher pixel in case for lower resolution image; data corruption of the cipher text due to noise; limitation of grayscale image only; sender have to send a couple of image for comparison of the pixel data etc. However, noise problem have been challenged with the help of median filter but still there remains many scope to establish this algorithm into an efficient and optimized one.