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Covert communication (also known as steganography) is the practice of concealing a secret inside an innocuous-looking public object (cover) so that the modified public object (covert code) makes sense to everyone but only someone who knows…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Leela Raj-Sankar , S. Raj Rajagopalan

The potential for large language models (LLMs) to hide messages within plain text (steganography) poses a challenge to detection and thwarting of unaligned AI agents, and undermines faithfulness of LLMs reasoning. We explore the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Artem Karpov , Tinuade Adeleke , Seong Hah Cho , Natalia Perez-Campanero

Steganography is an information hiding technique in which secret data are secured by covering them into a computer carrier file without damaging the file or changing its size. The difference between steganography and cryptography is that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Youssef Bassil

LSB method is one of the well-known steganography methods which hides the message bits into the least significant bit of pixel values. This method changes the statistical information of images, which causes to have an unsecured channel. To…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Kazem Qazanfari , Reza Safabaksh

To detect stego (steganographic text) in complex scenarios, linguistic steganalysis (LS) with various motivations has been proposed and achieved excellent performance. However, with the development of generative steganography, some stegos…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yifan Tang , Yihao Wang , Ru Zhang , Jianyi Liu

The security of private communication is increasingly at risk due to widespread surveillance. Steganography, a technique for embedding secret messages within innocuous carriers, enables covert communication over monitored channels. Provably…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Kaiyi Pang , Minhao Bai

Monitoring Large Language Model (LLM) outputs is crucial for mitigating risks from misuse and misalignment. However, LLMs could evade monitoring through steganography: Encoding hidden information within seemingly benign generations. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Artur Zolkowski , Kei Nishimura-Gasparian , Robert McCarthy , Roland S. Zimmermann , David Lindner

In today's digital age, the internet is essential for communication and the sharing of information, creating a critical need for sophisticated data security measures to prevent unauthorized access and exploitation. Cryptography encrypts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Anamitra Maiti , Subham Laha , Rishav Upadhaya , Soumyajit Biswas , Vikas Chaudhary , Biplab Kar , Nikhil Kumar , Jaydip Sen

The proliferation of digital carriers that can be exploited to conceal arbitrary data has greatly increased the number of techniques for implementing network steganography. As a result, the literature overlaps greatly in terms of concepts…

Steganalysis means analysis of stego images. Like cryptanalysis, steganalysis is used to detect messages often encrypted using secret key from stego images produced by steganography techniques. Recently lots of new and improved…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Tanmoy Sarkar , Sugata Sanyal

Network steganography encompasses the information hiding techniques that can be applied in communication network environments and that utilize hidden data carriers for this purpose. In this paper we introduce a characteristic called…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Wojciech Mazurczyk , Steffen Wendzel , Ignacio Azagra Villares , Krzysztof Szczypiorski

Motivated by concerns for user privacy, we design a steganographic system ("stegosystem") that enables two users to exchange encrypted messages without an adversary detecting that such an exchange is taking place. We propose a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Tina Fang , Martin Jaggi , Katerina Argyraki

Steganography aims to conceal the very fact that the communication takes place, by embedding a message into a digit object such as image without introducing noticeable artifacts. A number of steganographic systems have been developed in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Hanzhou Wu , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Yiliang Xiong , Hongxia Wang

Image steganography is a procedure for hiding messages inside pictures. While other techniques such as cryptography aim to prevent adversaries from reading the secret message, steganography aims to hide the presence of the message itself.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Kevin Alex Zhang , Alfredo Cuesta-Infante , Lei Xu , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

In the face of escalating surveillance and censorship within the cyberspace, the sanctity of personal privacy has come under siege, necessitating the development of steganography, which offers a way to securely hide messages within…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Minhao Bai , Jinshuai Yang , Kaiyi Pang , Yongfeng Huang , Yue Gao

Existing linguistic steganography methods primarily rely on content transformations to conceal secret messages. However, they often cause subtle yet looking-innocent deviations between normal and stego texts, posing potential security risks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Lingyun Xiang , Chengfu Ou , Xu He , Zhongliang Yang , Yuling Liu

Image steganography is the technique of embedding secret information within images. The development of deep learning has led to significant advances in this field. However, existing methods often struggle to balance image quality, embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Abhinav Kumar , Pratham Singla , Aayan Yadav

Network steganography is the art of hiding secret information within innocent network transmissions. Recent findings indicate that novel malware is increasingly using network steganography. Similarly, other malicious activities can profit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Steffen Wendzel , Wojciech Mazurczyk , Luca Caviglione , Michael Meier

Retention of secrecy is one of the significant features during communication activity. Steganography is one of the popular methods to achieve secret communication between sender and receiver by hiding message in any form of cover media such…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2012-04-13 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Suma V , Manas S

Steganography is the art of hiding the fact that communication is taking place, by hiding information in other information. Different types of carrier file formats can be used, but digital images are the most popular ones because of their…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ramita Maharjan , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Rejina Basnet