LSB and DCT Based Steganography in Safe Message Routing and Delivery for Structured Peer-To-Peer Systems

In structured P2P systems, message deliverance can be done by identifying the peer IDs of the individual systems. The initiator has to decide the destination and can route the message through one or more hops. The message passes from one hop to another correctly by identifying the IP address and finally reaches the destination. In this paper we propose an efficient routing strategy to control the routing path and to identify the malicious nodes. We also eliminate the drawbacks of encryption by introducing  steganography in message deliverance. This paper proposes a new steganographic encoding scheme which separates the colour channels of the windows bitmap images and then hides messages randomly in the LSB of one colour component of a chosen pixel where the colour components of the other two are found to be equal to the key selected. In addition to this we apply DCT based Steganography which embeds the text message in least significant bits of the Discrete Cosine (DC) coefficient of digital picture. When information is hidden inside video, the program hiding the information usually performs the DCT. DCT works by slightly changing each of the images in the video, only to the extent that is not noticeable by the human eye. An implementation of both these methods and their performance analysis has been done in this paper.