Cryptography & Steganography Laboratory

HYBRID CRYPTOGRAPHY
COMMAND CENTER

Securely transform a plaintext message through layered cryptographic protection and conceal the resulting ciphertext inside an image.

Mode 01

Encrypt message

Encrypt plaintext using Hill Cipher, S-DES and LSB steganography.

Start encryption

Mode 02

Decrypt message

Recover the original plaintext from a stego image using the reverse cryptographic process.

Start decryption

Overview

Encryption pipeline

Plaintext

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Hill cipher

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S-DES

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LSB steganography

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Stego image

Overview

Decryption pipeline

Stego image

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LSB extraction

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S-DES

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Hill cipher

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Plaintext

Key 01

Hill matrix

An invertible 3×3 matrix modulo 26 used for the matrix transformation stage.

Key 02

S-DES binary

A 10-bit binary key expanded into subkeys K1 and K2 for the two S-DES rounds.

The same two keys are required to reverse the process during decryption.