Abstract: The information security has become one of the most significant problems in data communication. So it becomes an inseparable part of data communication. In order to address this problem, cryptography and steganography can be combined. This paper proposes a secure communication system. It employs cryptographic algorithm together with steganography. After that, a discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) based steganography is employed to hide the encrypted message in the cover image by modifying the wavelet coefficients. The performance of the proposed system is evaluated using peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR). The main purpose of this article is to present a new security system that enables exchange data more securely and by altering the file content structure, detecting illegal access and stopping the illegal operation.

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2023.10719