A STENO HIDING USING CAMOUFLAGE BASED VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY SCHEME

This work deals with an Integrated Secured Data Communication Using Visual Cryptography. Idea of visual cryptography is to hide a secret image in different images called shares or cover images. This concept achieves lossless recovery and reduces the noise in the cover images and also enhances the quality of cover images without increasing the computational complexity. There are three levels of security which is highly safe and difficult to trace out by unauthorized person. Initially the text message or plain text which is converted into cipher text using RSA algorithm. In the first level security, the cipher text is hidden in the secret image. Next in the second level security, the secret image is encrypted. In this process the LSB technique is used. In the third level security, the video file is converted into several frames and the secret image is hidden in the video file frames.