International Journal for Research in Engineering Application & Management (IJREAM)

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Secure Data Transfer Using Video Steganography

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Prof. Dipti Mukadam, 2Sunita Mahale, 3Aayushi Dalvi, 4Prajakta Magar, 5Swapnil Gawade
1,2,3,4,5
Mahatma Gandhi Mission's College of Engineering and Technology, Plot No. 1, 2, Sion - Panvel
Expressway, Sector 18, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Abstract - Emergence of internet has made it possible to transfer the data from one place to another place rapidly and
accurately. This data when goes through the internet may become a victim of the hackers who can steal, modify and misuse
the information. Therefore it is necessary to transfer the data with atmost security. The steganography is the art of hiding
message inside another medium such as Video, Image, Audio. In this paper, combination of cryptography and
steganography is used for data hiding in video clips. This project focuses on the data security approach when combined with
encryption and steganographic techniques for secret communication by hiding it inside the multimedia files provides a high
level of security. The files composed of insignificant bits or unused areas which can be used for overwriting of other data.

KEYWORDS: Steganography, LSB, Encryption, Decryption, AES.

composed of 8 bits per pixel i.e.256colors.Common approach
I. INTRODUCTION designed for image steganography are LSB(Least Significant
As people become aware of the internet day-by-day, the number Bit) substitution which is the easy and most common approach
of users in the network increases considerably thereby, facing of hiding data inside images.
more challenges in terms of data storage and transmission over
B. Audio Steganography
the internet, for example Information like account number,
password etc. Hence, in order to provide a better security Audio steganography works by slightly changing the binary
mechanism, [7]we propose a data hiding technique called sequence and concealing with the secret message.[10] Several
steganography along with the technique of encryption- methods are proposed such as Least Significant Bit(LSB)
decryption. replacing last digit of carrier file.[12] Parity coding involves
Steganography is the art and science of hiding data into different breaking down of signal and then hiding the message in parity
carrier files such as text, audio, images, video, etc[1]. In bits of each sample. Phase coding involves encoding of secret
cryptography, the secret message that we send may be easily data to phase shifts.
detectable by the attacker. But in steganography, the secret C. Video Steganography
message is not easily detectable. The persons other than the
The separation of video into audio and images or frames results
sender and receiver are not able to view the secret message.
in the efficient method for data hiding.The use of video files as a
While cryptography results in making the data human
carrier medium for steganography is more eligible as compared
unreadable form called as cipher thus cryptography is
to other techniques.
scrambling of messages. Whereas the steganography results in
exploitation of human awareness so it remains unobserved and II. PROPOSED SYSTEM
undetected or intact. Research work done in the field of image steganography can be
Cover File(Audio,Image,Video) extended to the to the video steganography. One of the most
commonly used algorithm of image stegaanography is least
undetected or intact. It is possible to use all file medium, digital
Secret Steganography Stego file data, or files as a cover medium in steganography. Generally
(Audio,Image,Vi steganography technique is applied where cryptography is
TData deo)
ineffective significant bit (LSB) method. Least significant bit
Fig . 1Basic Steganography System based steganography method can also be applied to rext, audio
and even for video.[15] steganography technique is generally
classified into three main types namely, technique exploiting
A. Image Steganography image format, method embedding in frequency domain and
Fig1. Basic Steganography System
An imageFig1.
can Basic
be said an array of System
Steganography numbers which represents method in spatial domain[2].Stego is a greek word which means
light intensities at pixels
Fig1. Basic which results
Steganography in data.[16] Image is
System hidden. The ancient people used various techniques to send the
Fig1. Basic Steganography System

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secret messages during the war time. The evaluation of termed the state, although some versions of Rijndael have a
steganography technique is done with three parameters such as larger block size and have additional columns in the state.
capacity, robustness and security[3].The system should be
capable of hiding the information into cover media, it should be
robust to the changes and it should be secured enough from
eavesdroppers or attackers that tends to identify or alter the
contents of the secret data[4].

III. PROPOSED WORK

Cryptography is a technique used to encode the data in such a
way that even if the encoded data is visible its meaning is
unknown to the intruder. A combination of Cryptography and
Steganography is the crux of our proposed approach in this
paper. Here we make use of the AES algorithm. This algorithm
has been chosen after appropriate analysis as it best suits our
purpose of implementing security.[3] In this approach the
message is subjected to the AES algorithm to generate an
encrypted message.

Fig. 3 Flow Diagram

B. Steganography over Cryptography

The advantage of steganography over cryptography alone is that
messages do not attract attention to themselves, to messengers,
Fig. 2 System Architecture or to recipients. An unhidden coded message, no matter how
unbreakable it is, will arouse suspicion and may in itself be
A. AES Encryption Algorithm
incriminating, as in countries where encryption is illegal
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a specification for
[1]Steganography’s goal is to keep the presence of a message
the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S.
secret, or hide the fact that communication is taking
National Institute of Standards and Tech-nology (NIST) in
place.[2]Cryptography’s goal is to Obscure a message or
2001.It is based on the Rijndael cipher developed by two
communication so presence of a message secret, or hide the fact
Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. It
that communication is taking place.[2]Cryptography’s goal is to
supersedes the Data Encryption Standard (DES), which was
obscure a message or communication so that it cannot be
published in 1977.
understood.
The algorithm described by AES is a symmetric-key algorithm,
C. Encoding Secret Messages in Audio, video and image
meaning the same key is used for both en-crypting and
decrypting the data.[3] AES is based on a design principle Encoding secret messages in audio is the most challenging
known as a substitution-permutation network, and is fast in both technique to use when dealing with Steganography. This is
software and hardware. Un-like its predecessor DES, AES does because the human auditory system (HAS) has such a dynamic
not use a Feistel network. AES is a variant of Rijndael which range that it can listen over. To put this in perspective, the
has a fixed block size of 128 bits, and a key size of 128, 192, or (HAS) perceives over a range of power greater than one million
256 bits. By contrast, the Rijndael specification per se is to one and a range of frequencies greater than one thousand to
specified with block and key sizes that may be any multiple of one making it extremely hard to add or remove data from the
32 bits, both with a minimum of 128 and a maximum of 256 original data structure. The only weakness in the (HAS) comes
bits. AES operates on a 44 column-major order matrix of bytes, at trying to differentiate sounds (loud sounds drown out quiet

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