International Journal of Engineering and Technology

In this current world of increasing technology trends and the “internet age”, the security of our personal information has become more important than it has ever been there are media reports of identity theft and fraud and the numbers of innocent victims are increasing exponentially. Steganography plays an important role in preventing such information destruction by implementing a principle of imperceptible secret sharing. By this security can be established by clearly embedding data in such a way that the quality of the image is not affected. The existing methodology prevailing now is based on pixel indicator and number of data to be embedded is by pixel value differencing technique. A limitation in this methodology is that the pixel indicator channel is manually selected. The proposed methodology uses pixel indicator channel which is decided using histogram technique and the secret message file has to be embedded in the plane which has the highest color intensity.