Augmented Data Protection: Fortifying Confidentiality through CBBPH approach
Aayushi Jeeban Tripathy, Utkarsh Tiwari, Soumya Anirudh, Siddhant Ashwani, C. R. Kavitha · 2024
The foundation of contemporary data security, guaranteeing integrity and confidentiality in digital communications, is referred to as cryptography. On the other side, image steganography strengthens data security by providing a stealthy way to hide information within seemingly same images. A new level of data camouflage is added by the tactile writing system Braille, whose small representation makes effective use of pixel components for storage. Columnar transposition is also applied to improve security by further obscuring the contained data. To improve data security, this paper presents the Columnar Binary Braille Pixel Hiding (CBBPH) approach, a revolutionary technology that combines Braille encoding, image steganography, encryption, and columnar transposition synergistically. The proposed method involves encoding plaintext messages into Braille, transposing them using columnar transposition, and then embedding them into the pixels in the least important portions of the image. The CBBPH strategy represents a significant breakthrough in data security techniques as experimental results show that it generates higher values in Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) metric computations, indicating superior visual fidelity.