Cryptostega Mesh: A Triadic Approach for Secure Information Transfer using Cloud Environments

Authors

  • Leelendra Reddy Gogula Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, 522302
  • Harshith Kurapati Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, 522302
  • Bhuvana Reddy Bhimireddy Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, 522302
  • Alekhya Nimmagadda Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, 522302
  • Radhika Rani Chintala Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, 522302
  • Vijaya Chandra Jadala Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, 522302

Keywords:

Cryptography, Steganography, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hashing

Abstract

As technology evolves every day, the risks related to the internet are increasing rapidly. Some of the most common threats over the Internet include insecure data transmission and MITM attacks. Data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality are the main pillars to avoid these types of attacks. With the intention of tackling the risks mentioned, this paper presents an innovative approach where the information can be shared from one user to another in a secure way where the transfer was user specific i.e., no person other than the sender and the intended receiver can even know that the data was getting shared. The methods used in this paper include Cryptography, Steganography and Cloud Computing. This research implements a methodology combining cryptography and steganography along with cloud computing to provide more security that helps us avoid data security issues. The implementation includes RSA and DES encryption from Cryptography, data hiding in images using LSB Steganography, configuring cloud sources for storage, data transmission using cloud user management, and instant data deletion in the cloud with the help of various services offered by the cloud environment. The analysis of this approach is done by comparing the image obtained after completion of steganography which hides the data attained after encrypting it using hybrid cryptography with the image that is used for steganography to examine whether the changes made in the image can be identified easily or not. It is done using various types of graphs such as histograms, bar graphs, and difference images which are further explained in the results and analysis section.

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02.02.2024

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Gogula, L. R. ., Kurapati, H. ., Bhimireddy, B. R. ., Nimmagadda, A. ., Rani Chintala, R. ., & Jadala, V. C. . (2024). Cryptostega Mesh: A Triadic Approach for Secure Information Transfer using Cloud Environments. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, 12(14s), 283–293. Retrieved from https://ijisae.org/index.php/IJISAE/article/view/4665

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Vol. 12 No. 14s (2024)

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