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@article{145129,
        author = {Yogesh Desai and Sangram Patil},
        title = {DESIGN OF ROBUST METHOD FOR INCREASING SECURITY BY COMBINING CRYPTOGRAPHY, STEGANOGRAPHY AND WATERMARKING},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {4},
        number = {7},
        pages = {446-449},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=145129},
        abstract = {Now a day’s security for transferring the data over a network is most important issue. There are such attacks which easily conclude hidden information or secrete data. The attempts are made to smash and picture the actual messages by the hackers and crackers. To cover up the life of message, steganography is introduced by hiding a secret message inside another trusting message. Steganography along with cryptography is used and offers more confidentiality and security over the communication channel. Steganography is a skill of hiding the important information in the other information. Cryptography is used for security purpose and Watermarking is used for copyright protection of images, audios and videos. If these three techniques are combined then system efficiency to secure the data can be amplified drastically. In this Project steganography and cryptography techniques are combined with the watermarking to increase the protection level of the particular information. The elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) technique is employed in cryptography for the security purpose and is identified as an efficient and suitable scheme for producing public key and private key. The proposed methodology has two parts. In the first part the secrete information is first converted into Elliptic curve points using Elliptic curve Cryptography (ECC) technique, this increases the robustness of the system against various attacks. In the second part watermarking technique is applied on cover image. The similarity ratio calculated shows that the watermarking is more efficient if it is embedded in the least significant bit plane rather that other bit plane.  The basic idea of the proposed system is to design a simple but robust algorithm which can be easily used by average user without going into complex design.},
        keywords = {ECC, Text, Image, Cryptography, Steganography, Watermarking.},
        month = {},
        }