MarkToLock: An image masking security application via insertion of invisible watermark using steganography and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm

MarkToLock is an application that uses the Advanced Encryption Standards together with Least Significant Bit Steganography to encrypt and hide digital watermarks such as image, and text files in a cover image, while maintaining the accuracy of the original image, and the image produced by the system. The system will take a digital watermark and a cover image as input, use Advance Encryption Standard for encryption, and then use Least Significant Bit algorithm to hide the watermark in the cover image. The system will be evaluated to identify possible improvements in the performance of the schema and the advancements of image and graphics security computing.