This paper aims to develop a desktop application system called E-Sign detector using image steganography. It targets to fulfill the requirements of small and medium size companies to identify their employers through a specially designed embedded picture employee ID card. This employee ID card will be able to track the employee when he/she is attempting to enter through a doorway of the company. Hence, this will be highly advantageous for small companies where it is needed to grant special privileges to a certain number of officers to enter a high defensive area. This application will be a real-time system with higher reliability that saves time and decreases the manpower usage and provides higher security. Through this system, the company can mark the time at which an employee is accessing a certain place and leaving that place, and maintain daily attendance automatically. Finally, we argue that the proposed system will be a good substitution for the replacement of manual employee identification system as we have implemented and solved the drawbacks found in a manual employee identification system.

There was an era when almost all the works in an organization such as marking the attendance of the employees, salary calculation, management, sharing ideas and passing information were done manually. However, those who have been a part of the company when attendance registers were used know how easy it was to abuse such a method of attendance and mark bogus attendances for each other (Finklea, 2006). Of course, technology had to play its role in this field just as well as it had done in other fields. The employee identification system is created and it changed the way attendances were marked. This software deals with desktop environment for identifying the employees of a company, organization or any other workplace automatically and is known as E-SIGN Detector. This project provides solutions for the problems regarding a workplace where employee identification is necessary and higher security is important. The system can identify the user simply by the employee identification card issued for each employee of the workplace. This software is specially designed for the working.

Information Technology Journal, Image steganography, Employee ID, Cryptography, LSB, Encryption, Decryption.