A Mechanism for Combining Hill Cipher and Steganography Techniques in DNA Sequences to Enhance Information Security

Abstract

This research integrates the Hill Cipher encryption algorithm with DNA-based steganography as a form of dual protection. The plugins and modules mask the cryptex as DNA sequences. The proposed methods presented the full accuracy of the data recovery with low time and full recovery. The encryption and decryption steps are of low time and full recovery. The effective masking and absence of the cryptex within the cover DNA, as nominal 50%, and the absence of the cryptex confirm the absence of cryptex and detection. The proposed model gives an extremely high potential for secure communication, in high confidentiality environments, like in the exchange of medical and governmental data.