Information Security Through Image Processing by Utilizing Steganography

-Steganography is the advanced methodology for concealing secret data than the other strategies used to date. There are often cases when it is not possible to send messages openly or in encrypted form. This is where steganography play its role. While cryptography provides privacy which is intended to provide secrecy. Steganography aims to hide the secret messages and also for communication and transferring of data. So nobody aside from the licensed sender and receiver are tuned in to the existence of the key information. This paper intends to give an overview of image steganography and its uses and hiding the files (text file, audio file, video file, image file, etc.,) by using LSB and AES algorithm where AES is used for password protecting system so that if anyone can find the Stego-image they will not read the message because data is still in the encrypted form and LSB is used for hiding the data.

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