Enhancing Security through Steganography by using Sudoku Puzzle and ECC Algorithm

Abstract

Now-a-days, data transmission becoming very important among us. There are many modes of transmission of data, but secured data transmission is an important thing what everyone needs, because  everyone wants their data to transmit securely. But secured data transmission is still an important problem everyone is facing now-a-days. This paper illustrates image Steganography technique using
Sudoku puzzle and ECC algorithm for secured data transmission. Image Steganography refers to the process of hiding the data into image, while ECC algorithm helps to convert the original data into secret code. In the proposed method, the image Steganography is done using Sudoku puzzle. So, this method not only hides the data, but it also converts the original data into secret code. Thus, by combining these two techniques the data will be more securely transferred by this approach. The proposed mechanism will be developed with the aid of the platform MATLAB.