A combined approach of steganography with LSB encoding technique and DES algorithm

Steganography has become one of the widely used tools in today's world for hiding information within another data or an image. It is a technique that takes cryptography to the next level by concealing the presence of a message itself. Data Encryption Standard algorithm is such a cryptographic key which is applied to a block of plain text to convert it into a cipher text and vice-versa. This paper presents an innovative idea to hide a message within an image of any dimension by encrypting the message through Data Encryption Standard algorithm and concealing the message by applying LSB encoding technique in a spiral manner thus enhancing the difficulty of the decoder. The main objective is that, securing of data becomes more potent and secretive than the previous ones.