A Secured and Interactive Model for Data and Information Transfer in Higher Institutions of Learning in Adamawa State Nigeria

Information security is one of the most challenging problems in today’s technological world, with increasing number of inventions and innovations in technology which have become an integral part for humans, the urges for same amount in field of security and privacy is felt. The techniques likes cryptography, watermarking, steganography have been able to provide some relief. The level of intruder on the network and standalone system in recent times is at alarming rate. Hackers have devised several means of intruding to both private and public network as technology appears to be advancing at a very fast rate. This menace necessitates adequate security of data and information share across network. The objective of this study is to develop an interactive model capable of securing data and information in a more effectively way. To achieve this main goal, a combination of cryptography algorithm together with steganography system is proposed. In cryptography, a hybridized RSA and Twofish Algorithm will be used to encrypt the plaintext into cipher text in other to provide a robust and strong means of securing data. In a further attempt to secure the data, Least Significant Bits (LSB) is proposed to embed or hide the data behind some cover media before it is being sent to the intended receiver. The resulting outputs of this research provide a model that can guarantee extra security level for data so as to withstand attackers.