A New Approach for Hiding Data within Executable Computer Program Files Using an Improvement Cover Region

Abstract

Abstract – The process of hiding is considered to be one of the important securitybranches which are used to ensure the safe transfer of vital data and its protectionagainst theft or editing. Recently, the need for developed hiding methods have greatlyincreased as the programming technologies that are capable of detecting hidden data,which are hidden using conventional methods, have undergone a great leap in progress.This paper aims to introduce a novel method of hiding a text inside an executable (.exe)file. This is considered one of the recent, more developed types. The suggested systemhas been tested on two types of executable files. The first type was written using(C++.exe) whereas the second was written using (VB.exe). The text was hidden usingthe suggest method (Cover Region and Parity bits) through which the executable filewill be segmented into (regions) afterwards, each group of values will be testedalongside the value of the secret message that needs to be hidden. The suggestedapproach was applied on several texts and the result was that hiding via the executablefiles of the (VB) types is faster and it occupies less size than the (C++) type..