Steganography with Adaptable Separate Encrypted Code of Hidden Confidential Information

Steganography conceals information within another medium to avoid detection, often by hiding a message within an image, audio, or video file. It enables the secure transmission of information without attracting unwanted attention. This paper discusses a proposed algorithm with a new technique that hides the secret message inside the YCbCr and HSV image channels. In this proposed method, the information is converted or encrypted into ASCII and hidden inside the image channels. In this study, The HSV and YCbCr color spaces are used due to their dominant characteristics to hide information, and the extraction or decryption process achieved 100
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accuracy. The results demonstrate that the proposed encryption and decryption method is successful. By using a blank image, our data can be concealed without raising suspicion or risking image corruption. To verify the integrity of the decrypted file, a character check was performed.