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STEGANOGRAPHY
(A new technique to hide
information within image file)
SYNOPSIS
STEGANOGRAPHY
( Secure Data Transfer using Steganography )
Submitted by
Sneh Verma 0834810039
Jyoti kushwaha 0834810018
Neha Chaudhary 0834810022
Vandana Maurya 0834810405
Gopal Krishna Kushwaha 0834810012
in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree
of
B.Tech.
IN
Computer Science and Engineering
Under the Guidance
of
Mrs ABHILASHA VARSHNEY
PRANVEER SINGH ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY
APPROVED BY A.I.C.T.E. NEW DELHI
AFFILIATED TO G.B.T.U. LUCKNOW BHAUTI , KANPUR - 208001
SESSION 2012-2013
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that project report entitled “SECURE DATA TRANSFER USING STEGANOGRAPHY “ which is submitted by SNEH VERMA,JYOTI KUSHWAHA, NEHA CHAUDHARY, VANDANA MAURYA and GOPAL KRISHNA KUSHWAHA in partialfulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree B.Tech in department of ComputerScience & Engineering of U.P. Technical University is a record of the candidates own workcarried out by them under our supervision. The matter embodied in this dissertation is original and has not been submitted for the award of any other degree.
MR PRADEEP RAI
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
(CS & IT DEPARTMENT)
INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL EXAMINER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It gives us a great sense of pleasure to present the report of the B.Tech project undertaken during B.Tech Final Year. We owe special debt of gratitude to our Project Guide Mrs Abhilasha Varshney, PRANVEER SINGH ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY, Kanpur for her constant support and guidance throughout the course of our work. Her sincerity, thoroughness and perseverance have been a constant source of inspiration for us. It is only her cognizant efforts that our endeavors have seen light of the day. We also take the opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Mr. PRADEEP RAI, Head Of Department Computer Science & Information Technology, Pranveer Singh Academy of Technology, Kanpur for his full support and assistance during the development of the project. We also do not like to miss the opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of all faculty members of the department for their kind assistance and cooperation during the development of our project. Last but not the least, we acknowledge our friends for their contribution in the completion of the project.
Sneh Verma
Jyoti Kushwaha
Neha Chaudhary
Vandana Maurya
Gopal Krishna kushwaha
ABSTRACT
Steganography is the art of hiding the fact that
communication is taking place, by hiding information in
other information. Many different carrier file formats can
be used, but digital images are the most popular because
of their frequency on the internet. For hiding secret
information in images, there exists a large variety of
steganography techniques some are more complex than
others and all of them have respective strong and weak
points. Different applications may require absolute
invisibility of the secret information, while others require
a large secret message to be hidden. This project report
intends to give an overview of image steganography, its
uses and techniques. It also attempts to identify the
requirements of a good steganography algorithm and
briefly reflects on which steganographic techniques are more suitable
for which applications.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents...........................................................................5List of Figures.................................................................................14Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview........................................101.1 Introduction ..............................................................................101.2 Background of the problem………………………………………..101.3 Objective of project...................................................................111.4 Project modules .......................................................................121.5 Scope…………………………………………………………….......12Chapter 2: Requirement Analysis................................................132.1User’s requirement.....................................................................132.1.1 Software specification............................................................132.1.2 Hardware specification.......................................................... 132.1.3Description of technology …………………………...................142.1.3.1 C#.......................................................................................14
2.1.3.2 Microsoft .NET platform……………………………...............152.1.3.2.1. NET framework……………………...................................152.1.3.2.2 Basic components of .NET framework…………………….162.1.3.2.3 IDE visual studio2010………………………………………..192.1.3.2.4 Advantages of C#.NET…………………………………….202.1.3.2.5 C#.Net architecture…………………………………..........222.1.3.2.6 File name Extension…………………………………………242.1.3.2.7 Understanding Namespaces……………………...............242.1.3.2.8 Execution cycle………………………………………………252.1.3.2.9 C#.NET controls……………………………………………26 PHP....................................................................................312.1.3.5 Microsoft office access………………………………………..34Chapter 3: Methodology.................................................................................373.1 project category........................................................................373.2 SDLC model Used ...................................................................373.2.1 Waterfall Model …………………...………………….…............37
3.3 Project Planning........................................................................39
Chapter 4:System Design ………………………………………………………...42Chapter 5: System Analysis ………………………………………...455.1 Introduction ...............................................................................455.1.1 System Analysis ....................................................................455.2.4 Data flow diagram....................................................................51 5.2.4.1 0’level DFD……….…………………………..................51 5.2.4.2 1’level DFD……………………………………………....52 5.2.4.3 2’level DFD………………….……………………………535.2.5 Data tables ………………………………………………………..54Chapter 6: System Design............................................................566.1 Introduction ...............................................................................566.2 Entity relationship diagram.........................................................58 6.2.1 Introduction ..................................................................58
6.2.2 ER Diagram...................................................................60Chapter 7 Implementation and testing..........................................617.1 Introduction ................................................................................61 7.1.1 Implementation…………………………………………….61 7.1.2 Code optimization……………..………………………….617.2 Testing……………………………………………………………….63Chapter 8: Snapshot…………………………………………………..668.1 Desktop Application module .....................................................668.2 Web application module.............................................................67 8.2.1 Home Page………………………….……………………..67 8.2.2 Register Page……………………………………………..68 8.2.3 Login Page…………………………………………………698.3 Mobile Application module………………………………………..69Chapter 9 Conclusion and Future Enhancement......................719.1 Conclusions…………………………………………………………719.2 Future Scope………………………………………………………..71
Bibliography..................................................................................73
List of FiguresFigure 2.1: Compilation of code in C#.NET......................................19Figure 2.2: Architecture of .NET framework…………………………..22Figure 3.1: Waterfall model..............................................................38Figure 3.2 Project life cycle.............................................................24Figure 4.1: Three Tier Architecture ................................................42Figure 5.1: Requirement of risk analysis ........................................49Figure 5.2: Flow Diagram................................................................50Figure 5.3: 0’level DFD ..................................................................51Figure 5.4: 1’level DFD…………………………………………………52Figure 5.5: 2’level DFD…………………………………………………53Figure 5.6 Database Tables...........................................................54Figure 6.1: System Design.............................................................56Figure 6.2: ER Diagram……………………………….………………58Figure 6.3: Snapshots…………………………………………………66[
CHAPTER -1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF PROJECT
1.1 INTRODUCTION :
One of the reasons that intruders can be successful is that most of the information they acquire from a system is in a form that they can read and comprehend. Intruders may reveal the information to others, modify it to misrepresent an individual or organization, or use it to launch an attack. One solution to this problem is, through the use of steganography. Steganography is a technique of hiding information in digital media. In contrast to cryptography, it is not to keep others from knowing the hidden information but it is to keep others from thinking that the information even exists.
1.2 Background of the Problem Steganography become more important as more people join the cyberspace revolution. Steganography is the art of concealing information in ways that prevent the detection of hidden messages. Steganography include an array of secret communication methods that hide the message from being seen or discovered.
The goal of steganography is to avoid drawing suspicion to the existence of a hidden message. This approach of information hiding technique has recently become important in a number of application areas. Digital audio, video, and pictures are increasingly furnished with distinguishing but imperceptible marks, which may contain a hiddin copyright notice or serial number or even help to prevent unauthorized copying directly.
1.3 Objective
This project comprehends the following objectives:
(i) To produce security tool based on steganographic techniques. (ii) To explore techniques of hiding data using steganography.
1.4 Project Modules There are three modules in the project: 1. Encryption module 2. Decryption module 3. Communication module
1.5 Scope
The scope of the project as follow: (i) Implementation of steganographic tools for hiding information
includes text and image files. (ii) Three different approaches being explored which are least
significant bit, masking and filtering and algorithms and transformation.
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2 Requirement Analysis:
2.1 user’s requirement
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INTRODUCTION
One of the reasons that intruders can be successful is the most of the
information they acquire from a system is in a form that they can read and
comprehend. Intruders may reveal the information to others, modify it to
misrepresent an individual or organization, or use it to launch an attack. One
solution to this problem is, through the use of steganography. Steganography is
a technique of hiding information in digital media. In contrast to cryptography, it
is not to keep others from knowing the hidden information but it is to keep
others from thinking that the information even exists.
Steganography become more important as more people join the cyberspace
revolution. Steganography is the art of concealing information in ways that
prevents the detection of hidden messages. Stegranography include an array of
secret communication methods that hide the message from being seen or
discovered.
Due to advances in ICT, most of information is kept electronically. Consequently,
the security of information has become a fundamental issue. Besides
cryptography, streganography can be employed to secure information. In
cryptography, the message or encrypted message is embedded in a digital host
before passing it through the network, thus the existence of the message is
unknown. Besides hiding data for confidentiality, this approach of information
hiding can be extended to copyright protection for digital media: audio, video
and images.
The growing possibilities of modern communications need the special means of
security especially on computer network. The network security is becoming more
important as the number of data being exchanged on the internet increases.
Therefore, the confidentiality and data integrity are requires to protect against
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unauthorized access and use. This has resulted in an explosive growth of the
field of information hiding
Information hiding is an emerging research area, which encompasses
applications such as copyright protection for digital media, watermarking,
fingerprinting, and steganography.
In watermarking applications, the message contains information such as
owner identification and a digital time stamp, which usually applied for copyright
protection.
Fingerprint, the owner of the data set embeds a serial number that
uniquely identifies the user of the data set. This adds to copyright information to
makes it possible to trace any unauthorized used of the data set back to the
user.
Steganography hide the secrete message within the host data set and
presence imperceptible and is to be reliably communicated to a receiver. The
host data set is purposely corrupted, but in a covert way, designed to be
invisible to an information analysis.
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SYNOPSIS
Project Name: STEGANOGRAPHY
Project Members:
This project is done in a group of two people. Project members are.
1.2.
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What is Steganography?
Steganography is the practice of hiding private or sensitive information within
something that appears to be nothing out to the usual. Steganography is often
confused with cryptology because the two are similar in the way that they both
are used to protect important information. The difference between two is that
steganography involves hiding information so it appears that no information is
hidden at all. If a person or persons views the object that the information is
hidden inside of he or she will have no idea that there is any hidden information,
therefore the person will not attempt to decrypt the information.
What steganography essentially does is exploit human perception, human
senses are not trained to look for files that have information inside of them,
although this software is available that can do what is called Steganography. The
most common use of steganography is to hide a file inside another file.
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History of Steganography:
Through out history Steganography has been used to secretly communicate
information between people.
Some examples of use of Steganography is past times are:
1. During World War 2 invisible ink was used to write information on pieces of
paper so that the paper appeared to the average person as just being
blank pieces of paper. Liquids such as milk, vinegar and fruit juices were
used, because when each one of these substances are heated they darken
and become visible to the human eye.
2. In Ancient Greece they used to select messengers and shave their head,
they would then write a message on their head. Once the message had
been written the hair was allowed to grow back. After the hair grew back
the messenger was sent to deliver the message, the recipient would shave
off the messengers hair to see the secrete message.
3. Another method used in Greece was where someone would peel wax off a
tablet that was
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Why This Steganography?
This technique is chosen, because this system includes not only imperceptibility
but also un-delectability by any steganolysis tool.
Project Scope:
This project is developed for hiding information in any image file. The scope of
the project is implementation of steganography tools for hiding information
includes any type of information file and image files and the path where the user
wants to save Image and extruded file.
Methodology:
User needs to run the application. The user has two tab options – encrypt and
decrypt. If user select encrypt, application give the screen to select image file,
information file and option to save the image file. If user select decrypt,
application gives the screen to select only image file and ask path where user
want to save the secrete file.
This project has two methods – Encrypt and Decrypt.
In encryption the secrete information is hiding in with any type of image file.
Decryption is getting the secrete information from image file.
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Software Requirements:
.NET Framework 3.5
Hardware Requirements:
Processor: Preferably 1.0 GHz or Greater.
RAM : 512 MB or Greater.
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Encryption Process
IMAGE FILE INFORMATION FILE
BMP FILE
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Decryption Process
BMP FILE
INFORMATION FILE IMAGE FILE
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Limitations of the Software:
This project has an assumption that is both the sender and receiver must have
shared some secret information before imprisonment. Pure steganography
means that there is none prior information shared by two communication
parties.
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Summary
Steganography is a really interesting subject and outside of the mainstream
cryptography and system administration that most of us deal with day after day.
Steganography can be used for hidden communication. We have explored the
limits of steganography theory and practice. We printed out the enhancement of
the image steganography system using LSB approach to provide a means of
secure communication. A stego-key has been applied to the system during
embedment of the message into the cover image.
This steganography application software provided for the purpose to how to use
any type of image formats to hiding any type of files inside their. The master
work of this application is in supporting any type of pictures without need to
convert to bitmap, and lower limitation on file size to hide, because of using
maximum memory space in pictures to hide the file.
Since ancient times, man has found a desire in the ability to communicate
covertly. The recent explosion of research in watermarking to protect intellectual
property is evidence that steganography is not just limited to military or
espionage applications. Steganography, like cryptography, will play an
increasing role in the future of secure communication in the “digital world”.
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Bibliography
WebsitesFollowing websites are referring to create this project reports.
http://www.google.com
http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.asp.net
http://www.wikipedia.org
BooksFollowing books and ebook are used to complete this project reports.
Mastering C# (Paperback)
SQL Server Bible (Paperback)
.NET Black Book (Paperback)
Professional C#, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
Professional ASP.NET (Paperback)
MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing Web Applications with
Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#® .NET, Second Edition
MCAD/MCSE/MCDBA Self-Paced Training Kit: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database
Design and Implementation, Exam 70-229, Second Edition