A Hybrid Approach for Securing Textual Data Using Hashing, Encryption, and Steganography

In today's digital era information security has become a major challenge especially in communications where private data is transmitted. This paper introduces a new hybrid technique to protect data by combining various security mechanisms such as hashing, symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption and steganography this method combines MD5 and SHA-256 hashes to verify data integrity uses AES encryption to ensure confidentiality uses RSA to protect encryption keys and uses steganography to hide encrypted information in images which increase security by making information difficult to detect, this comprehensive approach improves confidentiality integrity and overall data protection making it ideal for digital communications and secure data transfers.