Highly Secured Reversible Data Hiding in AES Encrypted Images by Reserving Room before Encryption with Authentication

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We are living in an Electronics World. The advancements in World Wide Web and the explosive growth in communication techniques in recent years have created a lot of conveniences in our day-today life. Here we have to give the prime importance to security and the confidentiality of the sensitive data we are transmitting across the world. To protect this data from unauthorized access and tampering, various methods have been developed and are in practice today. Data hiding technique, is the process of concealing sensitive information in any media to transfer it securely over the underlying unreliable and unsecured communication network. Recently, more and more attention is paid to Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) in encrypted images, since it offers the excellent property that the original cover can be recovered without any loss after embedded data is extracted while protecting the image content’s confidentiality. RDH in the encrypted images by allocating memory before encryption method is used to recover the original cover without any loss & errors. It is basically used in the medical metaphors, military metaphors and law forensics, where no distortion of the original image is allowed.

Published In : IJCAT Journal Volume 1, Issue 4

Date of Publication : 31 May 2014

Pages : 77 - 86

Figures : 13

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Deepthi C : Received her B.Tech Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from SNGCET, Kannur University, Kerala, India in 2011. She has successfully undergone the Industrial Training on Telecom Technology from BSNL and Android Technology from KELTRON, Kerala, India. Currently doing her M.Tech in Digital Electronics and Communication Engineering at SDIT, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India.

Reversible Data Hiding (RDH)

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Histogram Shift (HS)

Reversible data hiding in AES Encrypted images by Reserving room before encryption can achieve real reversibility with high confidentiality for the secret data because of the use of multiple keys during the process ie, encryption key as well as data hiding key. With AES encryption, the secret key is known to both the sender and the receiver. The AES algorithm remains secure, the key cannot be determined by any known means, even if an eavesdropper knows the plaintext and the cipher text. AES is extremely fast compared to other block ciphers.

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