Proposition of a Better Data Security Model for a Protective Information Exchange on the Internet with Advanced Steganographic and Cryptographic Algorithm

Abstract

Ensuring data security is an essential priority to be put forward once there will be a digital transmission between any two or more targeted audience. Hence, the objective of this paper was to propose a better data security model for a protective information exchange on the internet with steganographic and cryptographic algorithms. Three cryptographic symmetric key encryption algorithm (RC6, Rijndael and TwoFish) and four steganographic carrier object (Image, audio, text and video) were considered. Data obtained show that Rijndael (AES) takes less encipherment and decipherment time compare to RC6 and TwoFish in cryptographic symmetric key encryption algorithm, while image carrier achieves better Peak-Signal-to-Noise Ratio if related to audio, video and text steganography. This research suggests the use of Advanced Encryption Standard and image steganography for efficient information interchange on the internet.