Stepping up internet banking security using dynamic pattern based image steganography

Abstract

In the world of E-Commerce internet banking is one of the indispensable applications. Security issues are to be addressed critically in internet banking applications and it directly influences the comfort. Even though the existing mechanisms ensure security the hackers succeed in breaking these mechanisms. In this regard to step up the internet banking security a new layer called 'Stego Layer' is introduced which in turn uses Dynamic Pattern Based Image Steganography (DPIS) algorithm. Stego-layer will be present in both client and server for embedding and extracting the message. The proposed method is compared with other popular encryption algorithms in practice. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.