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Steganography-Based Secure Communication

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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2012), December 28-30, 2012

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Abstract

Security and scalability are important issues for secure group communication in a grid environment. Secure communication involves confidentiality and authenticity of the user and the message between group members. To transmit data in a secure way, a secure and authenticated key transfer protocol should be applied. Key transfer protocol needs an entity responsible for user authentication and secures session keys. Recently, many researchers have proposed secure group communication methods based upon various cryptographic techniques. In this paper, we propose a secure key transfer protocol that uses the concepts of soft dipole representation of the image and steganography to establish secure communication between group of authenticated users. Steganography hides the existence of group keys in images. This protocol is more secure as compare to previously proposed encryption based group communication protocols. This protocol uses a centralized entity key management center (KMC). KMC generates the group key using soft dipoles of the images of the group members and broadcast it securely to all the communicating group members.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Manjot Bhatia & Sunil Kumar Muttoo

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    M. P. S. Bhatia

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  1. Institute of Engineering and Technology, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    B. V. Babu

  2. Department of Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  3. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

    Kusum Deep

  4. Department of Paper Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

    Millie Pant

  5. Department of Applied Mathematics, South Asian University, New Delhi, India

    Jagdish Chand Bansal

  6. Institute of Engineering and Technology, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Kanad Ray

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    Umesh Gupta

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Bhatia, M., Muttoo, S.K., Bhatia, M.P.S. (2014). Steganography-Based Secure Communication. In: Babu, B., et al. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2012), December 28-30, 2012. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 236. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1602-5_83

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