Private key and password protection by steganographic image encryption

Debesh Choudhury; Sujoy Chakraborty

doi:10.1117/12.2632631

3 October 2022 Private key and password protection by steganographic image encryption

Debesh Choudhury, Sujoy Chakraborty

Proceedings Volume 12226, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLV; 1222619 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632631
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We propose a technique to protect and preserve a private key or a passcode in an encrypted two-dimensional graphical image. The plaintext private key or the passcode is converted into an encrypted QR code and embedded into a real-life color image with a steganographic scheme. The private key or the passcode is recovered from the stego color image by first extracting the encrypted QR code from the color image, followed by decryption of the QR code. The cryptographic key for encryption of the QR code is generated from the output of a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR), initialized by a seed image chosen by the user. The user can store the seed image securely, without the knowledge of an attacker. Even if an active attacker modifies the seed image (without knowledge of the fact that it is the seed image), the user can easily restore it if he/she keeps multiple copies of it, so that the encryption key can be regenerated easily. Our experiments prove the feasibility of the technique using sample private key data and real-life color images.

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Debesh Choudhury and Sujoy Chakraborty "Private key and password protection by steganographic image encryption", Proc. SPIE 12226, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLV, 1222619 (3 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632631

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