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Securing Data via Cryptography and Arabic Text Steganography

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This research proposes an efficient security system for hiding classified Arabic text-data on limited processors devices benefiting from the combination of both techniques: light-weight cryptography (LWC) and Arabic text steganography. The work assumes to secure the sensitive text-data on devices suffering low resource allocation by layer of LWC encryption to provide acceptable security. In this work, we use a two-layer technique, where we firstly encrypt the Arabic secret text-data examining effectiveness of different LWC algorithms, i.e. AES, DES, and IDEA; then, embedding the encrypted data into diacritics within Arabic text cover media. The work tested the possibility of accepting LWC security of AES, IDEA, and DES encryption assuming their suitable effect on the text stego-cover. The work runs numerous different experimentations to study the preference, where LWC selection of DES algorithm finds the applicable scheme giving acceptable security in efficient manner.

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Alkhudaydi, M., Gutub, A. Securing Data via Cryptography and Arabic Text Steganography. SN COMPUT. SCI. 2, 46 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-020-00438-y

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