scholarly journals A Text Steganographic System Based on Word Length Entropy Rate

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Francis Xavier Kofi Akotoye
Keyword(s):  
Word Length ◽  
Entropy Rate ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Embedding Capacity ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Text Document ◽  
Electronic Distribution ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Hidden Data ◽  
Space Encoding

<p class="0abstract">The widespread adoption of electronic distribution of material is accompanied by illicit copying and distribution. This is why individuals, businesses and governments have come to think of how to protect their work, prevent such illicit activities and trace the distribution of a document. It is in this context that a lot of attention is being focused on steganography. Implementing steganography in text document is not an easy undertaking considering the fact that text document has very few places in which to embed hidden data. Any minute change introduced to text objects can easily be noticed thus attracting attention from possible hackers. This study investigates the possibility of embedding data in text document by employing the entropy rate of the constituent characters of words not less than four characters long. The scheme was used to embed bits in text according to the alphabetic structure of the words, the respective characters were compared with their neighbouring characters and if the first character was alphabetically lower than the succeeding character according to their ASCII codes, a zero bit was embedded otherwise 1 was embedded after the characters had been transposed. Before embedding, the secret message was encrypted with a secret key to add a layer of security to the secret message to be embedded, and then a pseudorandom number was generated from the word counts of the text which was used to paint the starting point of the embedding process. The embedding capacity of the scheme was relatively high compared with the space encoding and semantic method.</p>

Text Steganography Approaches Using Similarity of English Font Styles

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar A. El Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Transmission Channel ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
Text Document ◽  
Text Steganography ◽  
Relevant Topic ◽  
Hidden Data ◽  
Very High

Data protection has become a more critical issue and the necessity to secure a transmission channel is become more serious. Therefore, steganography, the art of hidden data into a digital media in a way that embed a secret message in the cover document without permitting anyone to suspect the data existence except the intended recipient, has become a relevant topic of research. The actual challenge in steganography is how it could obtain high robustness and capacity without damaging the cover document imperceptibility. This article presents two steganography approaches that based on the Similarity of English Font Styles (SEFS). This process has the main document font style replaced by a similar font style to embed the secret message after encoding it. This is done by using 1) the upper-case letters and punctuation marks of the carrier document or 2) the white space between words, start and end letters of each word that has more than 2 letters in the carrier document. These approaches are tested by being applied to various document formats with various font styles. From the findings, the secret message was vague to an antagonist and the stego-document size was increased and the capacity is very high. Also, the approaches are implemented using C# to develop a tool that hides a critical data in text document and the same findings were achieved.

scholarly journals Image Steganography combined with Cryptography

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 976-984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijaya Lakshmi Paruchuri ◽  
Dr.R. Sridevi ◽  
K.S. SadaSiva Rao
Keyword(s):  
Image Steganography ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Encrypted Image ◽  
Hidden Data ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
Lsb Technique ◽  
The Right

Steganography is the science of invisible communication. Apart from the sender and intended recipient no one suspects the existence of the message. Using Steganography, information can be hidden in various mediums known as carriers. The carriers can be images, audio files, video files and text files. Image Steganography is a technique of using an image file as a carrier. Cryptography protects the information by applying the encryption and decryption techniques, so that the secret message can be understood only by the right person.This paper proposes a method, which combines the techniques of Steganography and cryptography, to hide the secret data in an image. In the first phase, the sender will embed the secret data in an image by using the Least Significant Bit (LSB) technique. The embedded image will be encrypted by using an encryption algorithm. At final, the encrypted image will be decrypted and the hidden data will be retrieved by supplying the valid secret key by the receiver. The process includes the phases of Data embedding, Image Encryption and recovery of both original image and secret data from the encrypted image.

scholarly journals Efficient Reversible Data Hiding Scheme for AMBTC-Compressed Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 6741
Author(s):  
Chia-Chen Lin ◽  
Thai-Son Nguyen ◽  
Chin-Chen Chang ◽  
Wen-Chi Chang
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Free Space ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Embedding Capacity ◽  
Absolute Moment ◽  
Compressed Images ◽  
High Embedding Capacity ◽  
Significant Attention ◽  
Efficiency Rate

Reversible data hiding has attracted significant attention from researchers because it can extract an embedded secret message correctly and recover a cover image without distortion. In this paper, a novel, efficient reversible data hiding scheme is proposed for absolute moment block truncation code (AMBTC) compressed images. The proposed scheme is based on the high correlation of neighboring values in two mean tables of AMBTC-compressed images to further losslessly encode these values and create free space for containing a secret message. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme obtained a high embedding capacity and guaranteed the same PSNRs as the traditional AMBTC algorithm. In addition, the proposed scheme achieved a higher embedding capacity and higher efficiency rate than those of some previous schemes while maintaining an acceptable bit rate.

scholarly journals A Distortion-Free Data Hiding Scheme for Triangular Meshes Based on Recursive Subdivision

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Yu Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Similarity Transformation ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Subdivision Scheme ◽  
Data Embedding ◽  
Embedding Capacity ◽  
Free Data ◽  
Reversible Data Embedding

This study adopts a triangle subdivision scheme to achieve reversible data embedding. The secret message is embedded into the newly added vertices. The topology of added vertex is constructed by connecting it with the vertices of located triangle. For further raising the total embedding capacity, a recursive subdivision mechanism, terminated by a given criterion, is employed. Finally, a principal component analysis can make the stego model against similarity transformation and vertex/triangle reordering attacks. Our proposed algorithm can provide a high and adjustable embedding capacity with reversibility. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of our proposed algorithm.

scholarly journals A Novel High-Capacity Behavioral Steganographic Method Combining Timestamp Modulation and Carrier Selection Based on Social Networks

Symmetry ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Mingliang Zhang ◽  
Zhenyu Li ◽  
Pei Zhang ◽  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Xiangyang Luo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Covert Communication ◽  
Embedding Capacity ◽  
Carrier Selection ◽  
Text Steganography

Behavioral steganography is a method used to achieve covert communication based on the sender’s behaviors. It has attracted a great deal of attention due to its robustness and wide application scenarios. Current behavioral steganographic methods are still difficult to apply in practice because of their limited embedding capacity. To this end, this paper proposes a novel high-capacity behavioral steganographic method combining timestamp modulation and carrier selection based on social networks. It is a steganographic method where the embedding process and the extraction process are symmetric. When sending a secret message, the method first maps the secret message to a set of high-frequency keywords and divides them into keyword subsets. Then, the posts containing the keyword subsets are retrieved on social networks. Next, the positions of the keywords in the posts are modulated as the timestamps. Finally, the stego behaviors applied to the retrieved posts are generated. This method does not modify the content of the carrier, which ensures the naturalness of the posts. Compared with typical behavioral steganographic methods, the embedding capacity of the proposed method is 29.23∼51.47 times higher than that of others. Compared to generative text steganography, the embedding capacity is improved by 16.26∼23.94%.

Fuzzy Proximity based Robust Data Hiding Scheme with Interval Threshold

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabhas Kumar Singh ◽  
Biswapati Jana ◽  
Kakali Datta
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Data Hiding ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Coincidence Problem ◽  
Shared Secret

Abstract In 2020, Ashraf et al. proposed an interval type-2 fuzzy logic based block similarity calculation using color proximity relations of neighboring pixels in a steganographic scheme. Their method works well for detecting similarity, but it has drawbacks in terms of visual quality, imperceptibility, security, and robustness. Using Mamdani fuzzy logic to identify color proximity at the block level, as well as a shared secret key and post-processing system, this paper attempts to develop a robust data hiding scheme with similarity measure to ensure good visual quality, robustness, imperceptibility, and enhance the security. Further, the block color proximity is graded using an interval threshold. Accordingly, data embedding is processed in the sequence generated by the shared secret keys. In order to increase the quality and accuracy of the recovered secret message, the tampering coincidence problem is solved through a post-processing approach. The experimental analysis, steganalysis and comparisons clearly illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in terms of visual quality, structural similarity, recoverability and robustness.

Design Of Hybrid Cryptography With Vigenere Cipher And RSA Algorithm On IOT Data Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
Maria Okta Safira ◽  
I Komang Ari Mogi
Keyword(s):  
System Architecture ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Data Encryption ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Rsa Algorithm ◽  
Tcp Protocol ◽  
Public Keys ◽  
Encryption And Decryption

In this paper two methods are used, namely the vigenere cipher method and the RSA method. The vigenere cipher method is an example of a symmetric algorithm, while RSA is an example of an asymmetric algorithm. The combination of these two methods is called hybrid cryptography which has the advantage in terms of speed during the encryption process. Each process, which is encryption and decryption, is carried out twice, so that security can be ensured. In the process of forming the key used the RSA method. In the encryption process using public keys that have been generated before when the key is formed. This public key is used in sending data to the recipient of a secret message where this key is used for the data encryption process. The Secret key is kept and will be used during the decryption process. There is a system architecture that describes how clients and servers communicate with each other over the internet using the TCP protocol where the client here is an IoT device and the server is a server. 

On Securing Cloud Storage Using a Homomorphic Framework

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Daya Sagar Gupta ◽  
G. P. Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Elliptic Curve ◽  
Cloud Storage ◽  
Homomorphic Encryption ◽  
Cloud Security ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Cloud System ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Security Mechanism ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Hard Problems

In this chapter, a cloud security mechanism is described in which the computation (addition) of messages securely stored on the cloud is possible. Any user encrypts the secret message using the receiver's public key and stores it. Later on, whenever the stored message is required by an authentic user, he retrieves the encrypted message and decrypts it by using his secret key. However, he can also request the cloud for an addition of encrypted messages. The cloud system only computes the requested addition and sends it to the authentic user; it cannot decrypt the stored encrypted messages on its own. This addition of encrypted messages should be the same as the encryption of the addition of original messages. In this chapter, the authors propose a homomorphic encryption technique in which the above-discussed scenario is possible. The cloud securely computes the addition of the encrypted messages which is ultimately the encryption of the addition of the original messages. The security of the proposed encryption technique depends on the hardness of elliptic curve hard problems.

scholarly journals A NEW AND ADAPTIVE SECURITY MODEL FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION BASED ON CORRELATION OF DATA FRAMES

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-133
Author(s):  
Haider Tarish Haider ◽  
Dhiaa Halboot Muhsen ◽  
Haider Ismael Shahadib ◽  
Ong Hang See
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Security Model ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Capacity Data

Recent developments in communication and information technologies, plus the emerging of the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) principles, create the need to protect data from multiple types of attacks. In this paper, a secure and high capacity data communication model is proposed to protect the transmitted data based on identical frames between a secret and cover data. In this model, the cover data does not convey any embedded data (as in normal steganography system) or modify the secret message (as in traditional cryptography techniques). Alternatively, the proposed model sends the positions of the cover frames that are identical with the secret frames to the receiver side in order to recover the secret message. One of the significant advantages of the proposed model is the size of the secret key message which is considerably larger than the cover size, it may be even hundred times larger. Accordingly, the experimental results demonstrate a superior performance in terms of the capacity rate as compared to the traditional steganography techniques. Moreover, it has an advantage in terms of the required bandwidth to send the data or the required memory for saving when compared to the steganography methods, which need a bandwidth or memory up to 3-5 times of the original secret message. Where the length of the secret key (positions of the identical frames) that should be sent to the receiver increases by only 25% from the original secret message. This model is suitable for applications with a high level of security, high capacity rate and less bandwidth of communication or low storage devices.

scholarly journals Combining Invisible Unicode Characters To Hide Information In A Text Document

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
N.R. Zaynalov ◽  
U.Kh. Narzullaev ◽  
A.N. Muhamadiev ◽  
I.R. Rahmatullaev ◽  
R.K. Buranov
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Chemical Reagents ◽  
Text Document ◽  
Hide Information ◽  
Perception System ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Audio Video

Steganography develops tools and methods for hiding the fact of message transmission. The first traces of steganographic methods are lost in ancient times. For example, there is a known method of hiding a written message: the slave's head was shaved, a message was written on the scalp, and after the hair grew back, the slave was sent to the addressee. From detective works, various methods of secret writing between the lines of ordinary text are well known: from milk to complex chemical reagents with subsequent processing. Digital steganography is based on hiding or embedding additional information in digital objects while causing some distortion of these objects. In this case, text, images, audio, video, network packets, and so on can be used as objects or containers. To embed a secret message, steganographic methods rely on redundant container information or properties that the human perception system cannot distinguish. Recently, there has been a lot of research in the field of hiding information in a text container, since many organizations widely use text documents. Based on this, here the MS Word document is considered as a medium of information. MS Word documents have different parameters, and by changing these parameters or properties, you can achieve data embedding. In the same article, we present steganography using invisible Unicode characters of the Space type, but with a different encoding.

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