Biometric Steganography using Variable Length Embedding
Souvik Bhattacharyya, Indradip Banerjee, Anumoy Chakborty and Gautam Sanyal · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2013
Recent growth in digital multimedia technologies has presented a lot of facilities in information transmission, reproduction and manipulation. So the concept of information security is one of the superior articles in the present day situation. The biometric information security is one of the information security mechanisms. It has the advantages and disadvantages also. The biometric system is at risk to a range of attacks. These attacks are anticipated to bypass the security system or to suspend the normal functioning. Various hazards have been discovered while using biometric system. Proper use of steganography greatly reduces the risks in biometric systems from the hackers. Steganography is one of the fashionable information hiding technique. The goal of steganography is to hide information inside a cover medium like text, image, audio, video etc. through which it is not possible to detect the existence of the secret information. Here in this paper a new security concept has been established by making the system more secure with the help of steganography along with biometric security. Here the biometric information has been embedded to a skin tone portion of an image with the help of proposed steganographic technique.