A Technique for Secret Communication Using a New Block Cipher with Dynamic Steganography
Gandharba Swain, Saroj Kumar Lenka · 2012
This paper presents a technique for secret communication using cryptography and steganography. The cryptographic algorithm is a block cipher with a block length of 128 bits and key length of 256 bits. The secret message is encrypted by this block cipher. Two cipher text bits are to be embedded in each pixel of the image. Each pixel is 8 bits. The embedding locations in a pixel are: 6 th and 7 th bit locations or 7 th and 6 th bit locations or 7 th and 8 th bit locations or 8 th and 7 th bit locations depending upon the cipher text bits. The 8 th bit means the least significant bit (LSB). As the embedding locations are decided at the run time of the algorithm, so it is called as dynamic steganography. The technique is experimented and results are discussed.