INFORMATION SECURITY APPLICATION DEVELOPED USING CRYPTOLOGY AND STEGANOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES

Abstract

The use of digital platforms popularized as a result of technological developments and reached very high points recently. However, these platforms that are used by many people to meet their needs are open to security vulnerabilities due to the number of uses they get. The need for information security has increased significantly since computer technologies are widely used today. This study aims to contribute to the protection of information security using cryptology and steganography techniques that are closely linked with security issues. In this study, data encryption and data hiding, which are generally thought of as alternatives, are used as supplements of each other. Thus, a new and unique application, which is thought to contribute to increasing information security, was developed using cryptology and steganography techniques. It is observed that with the usage of the new application, the data embedded in a digital image that is hidden to different and randomly selected positions each time can be decrypted successfully to obtain the original data. The application was developed using the C# programming language