A Novel Approach for Arabic Text Steganography Based on the “BloodGroup” Text Hiding Method

Steganography is the science of hiding certain messages (data) in groups of irrelevant data possibly of other form. The purpose of steganography is covert communication to hide the existence of a message from an intermediary. Text Steganography is the process of embedding secret message (text) in another text (cover text) so that the existence of secret message cannot be detected by a third party. This paper presents a novel approach for text steganography using the Blood Group (BG) method based on the behavior of blood group. Experimentally it is found that the proposed method got good results in capacity, hiding capacity, time complexity, robustness, visibility, and similarity which shows its superiority as compared to most several existing methods.

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A Comparative Analysis of Arabic Text Steganography

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11156851 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (15) ◽

pp. 6851

Author(s):

Reema Thabit ◽

Nur Izura Udzir ◽

Sharifah Md Yasin ◽

Aziah Asmawi ◽

Nuur Alifah Roslan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Evaluation Criteria ◽

Arabic Language ◽

Text Messages ◽

Secret Message ◽

Sensitive Information ◽

Arabic Text ◽

Ideal Object ◽

Internet Users ◽

Text Steganography ◽

Text Content

Protecting sensitive information transmitted via public channels is a significant issue faced by governments, militaries, organizations, and individuals. Steganography protects the secret information by concealing it in a transferred object such as video, audio, image, text, network, or DNA. As text uses low bandwidth, it is commonly used by Internet users in their daily activities, resulting a vast amount of text messages sent daily as social media posts and documents. Accordingly, text is the ideal object to be used in steganography, since hiding a secret message in a text makes it difficult for the attacker to detect the hidden message among the massive text content on the Internet. Language’s characteristics are utilized in text steganography. Despite the richness of the Arabic language in linguistic characteristics, only a few studies have been conducted in Arabic text steganography. To draw further attention to Arabic text steganography prospects, this paper reviews the classifications of these methods from its inception. For analysis, this paper presents a comprehensive study based on the key evaluation criteria (i.e., capacity, invisibility, robustness, and security). It opens new areas for further research based on the trends in this field.

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

Symmetry ◽

10.3390/sym14010111 ◽

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%.

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A Novel Approach Covert Channel for Secret Communications

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY ◽

10.24297/ijct.v14i2.2084 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 5479-5486

Author(s):

Ali Hussein Hadi

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Public Service ◽

Communication Channel ◽

Secret Message ◽

Covert Channel ◽

Covert Communication ◽

Application Layer ◽

Video Frames ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Two Phases

This paper presents a novel covert channel for secret communications. It implements a new application layer covert channel, by applying multimedia steganography techniques to hide secret messages. This new channel method (called Under Your Radar (UYR)) provides a stealthiness method for the communication channel and an efficient method for hiding messages, as proved by our investigations. Such a covert channel will be used for transferring secret messages in two phases. In phase one, the message characters will be embedded randomly into the pixels of video frames. The choice of pixels is dependent on finding an identical value of the character ASCII representation from one of the pixel channels. The positions of pixels will form the steganography key, which will be used later to extract the message. Also, the steganography key will be embedded in an image using the LSB steganography technique. In phase two, the secret message will be exchanged between the sender and the receiver by sharing the video along with the steganography key over a public service (e.g. a social network), which serves as the new covert communication channel. The experiments outcomes have showed an improvement on the success of the proposed covert channel in exchanging secret messages without rising suspicion by observers or detection tools.

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A review of arabic text steganography: past and present

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ◽

10.11591/ijeecs.v17.i2.pp1040-1046 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 1040

Author(s):

Suhaibah Jusoh ◽

Aida Mustapha ◽

Azizan Ismail ◽

Roshidi Din

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

English Language ◽

Arabic Language ◽

Secret Message ◽

Arabic Text ◽

Hidden Information ◽

Secret Information ◽

Text Steganography

<span>Steganography is a strategy for hiding secret information in a cover document in order to avoid attacker from predict about hidden information. Steganography exploit cover message, for instance text, audio, picture and video to hide the secret message. Before this, linguistic text steganographic techniques are implemented just for the English language. But nowadays different languages are used to hide the data like Arabic language. This language is still new in the steganography and still need practices for empowerment. This paper will present the text steganographic method for Arabic language, scholar paper within 5 year will be analyze and compared. The main objective of this paper is to give the comparative analysis in the Arabic steganography method that has been applied by previous researchers. Finally, the disadvantage and advantage of the method also will be presented in this paper.</span>

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A Hybrid Method of Hiding The Text Information Using Stegnography

International Journal of Computer Science and Informatics ◽

10.47893/ijcsi.2013.1112 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 21-25

Author(s):

M.Grace Vennice ◽

M. Swapna ◽

MD.Ahmad Ali ◽

T.Dharma Reddy

Keyword(s):

Hybrid Method ◽

Information Hiding ◽

Secret Message ◽

Privacy And Security ◽

New Approach ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Text Steganography ◽

Suitable Amount ◽

History Of ◽

Text Information

The Often Distribution of encrypted messages will depict the concentration of third parties. The attempts can be made to break and expose the actual messages by the hackers and cracker crackers. To conceal the subsistence of message steganography is introduced by hiding a secret message inside another credulous message.Steganography along with cryptograph y is used and offers suitable amount of privacy and security over the communication cha channel. nnel. In this paper along with various existing text text-based steganography techniques, an overview of text steganography and a concise history of steganography can be presented. The problems present in the text steganography and issues with existing solution solutionss are highlighted. In information hiding, a novel approach is proposed by using inter-word word spacing and inter inter-paragraph paragraph spacing as a hybrid method. Based on the length of the secret message, the proposed method provides dynamic generated stego stego-text with six ix options of maximum capacity. The considerable drawbacks of every existing method and how our new approach might be recommended as a solution can be analyzed in this paper.

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