A Two-domain Data Hiding Scheme for Data Signature in Integrated Online Services Applications
Abstract There is confidential data in integrated online services applications. The data needs to be hidden before transmission on the Internet, and the data authenticity should be assured. Information hiding technology is an effective way of protecting the confidential data and may be used for assuring data authenticity. A Two-domain data hiding scheme (TDHS) is introduced in the paper to protect contract document authenticity in grid system. TDHS aims to embed confidential data into signature image in both spatial and frequency domain. LSB-like algorithm is used to generate a signature image Hs by embedding feature data of contract document into the original signature image H in the spatial domain. Then DCT algorithm is adopted to embed the watermark in signature image Hs in the frequency domain, and generate signature image Hs ready . The signature image Hs ready is inserted into the contract document. When received the document with signature, the recipient can verify its authenticity. The feasibility of TDHS is verified through experiments.