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With data privacy becoming more of a necessity than a luxury in today's digital world, research on more robust models of privacy preservation and information security is on the rise. In this paper, we take a look at Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Geetanjali Bihani , Julia Taylor Rayz

Linguistic steganography embeds secret information into seemingly innocuous text to safeguard privacy under surveillance. Generative linguistic steganography leverages the probability distributions of language models (LMs) and applies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyi Pang

Understanding the latent space geometry of large language models (LLMs) is key to interpreting their behavior and improving alignment. Yet it remains unclear to what extent LLMs linearly organize representations related to semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Baturay Saglam , Paul Kassianik , Blaine Nelson , Sajana Weerawardhena , Yaron Singer , Amin Karbasi

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

Image steganography can hide information in a host image and obtain a stego image that is perceptually indistinguishable from the original one. This technique has tremendous potential in scenarios like copyright protection, information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Huayuan Ye , Shenzhuo Zhang , Shiqi Jiang , Jing Liao , Shuhang Gu , Dejun Zheng , Changbo Wang , Chenhui Li

Recent provably secure linguistic steganography (PSLS) methods rely on mainstream autoregressive language models (ARMs) to address historically challenging tasks, that is, to disguise covert communication as ``innocuous'' natural language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yuang Qi , Na Zhao , Qiyi Yao , Benlong Wu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Kejiang Chen

Most of the existing text generative steganographic methods are based on coding the conditional probability distribution of each word during the generation process, and then selecting specific words according to the secret information, so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhongliang Yang , Baitao Gong , Yamin Li , Jinshuai Yang , Zhiwen Hu , Yongfeng Huang

In this paper, a novel steganographic scheme based on chaotic iterations is proposed. This research work takes place into the information hiding framework, and focus more specifically on robust steganography. Steganographic algorithms can…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Jacques M. Bahi , Jean-François Couchot , Nicolas Friot , Christophe Guyeux

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

State of the art generative models of human-produced content are the focus of many recent papers that explore their use for steganographic communication. In particular, generative models of natural language text. Loosely, these works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Luke A. Bauer , James K. Howes , Sam A. Markelon , Vincent Bindschaedler , Thomas Shrimpton

Language Models (LMs) emit Chains-of-Thought (CoTs) that drive much of their capability. However, the same sequence that carries useful reasoning can also covertly convey messages: a misaligned model may embed covert information in its CoT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhejian Zhou , Jonathan May

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 paper presents Multi-Level Steganography (MLS), which defines a new concept for hidden communication in telecommunication networks. In MLS, at least two steganographic methods are utilised simultaneously, in such a way that one method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Wojciech Fraczek , Wojciech Mazurczyk , Krzysztof Szczypiorski

Linguistic steganography involves embedding secret messages within seemingly innocuous texts to enable covert communication. Provable security, which is a long-standing goal and key motivation, has been extended to language-model-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruiyi Yan , Yugo Murawaki

Steganography is the practice of concealing a message within some other carrier or cover message. It is used to allow the sending of hidden information through communication channels where third parties would only be aware of the explicit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-24 João Figueira

Jailbreak attacks pose a serious threat to Large Language Models (LLMs) by bypassing their safety mechanisms. A truly advanced jailbreak is defined not only by its effectiveness but, more critically, by its stealthiness. However, existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jianing Geng , Biao Yi , Zekun Fei , Ruiqi He , Lihai Nie , Tong Li , Zheli Liu

Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and the receiver would realize that a secret communicating is taking place. Unlike cryptography which only scrambles secret data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Youssef Bassil

In the context of widespread global information sharing, information security and privacy protection have become focal points. Steganographic systems enhance information security by embedding confidential information into public carriers;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zezheng Qin , Congcong Sun , Taiyi He , Yuke He , Azizol Abdullah , Normalia Samian , Nuur Alifah Roslan

Amidst the sharp rise in the evaluation of large language models (LLMs) on various tasks, we find that semantic textual similarity (STS) has been under-explored. In this study, we show that STS can be cast as a text generation problem while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Joseph Gatto , Omar Sharif , Parker Seegmiller , Philip Bohlman , Sarah Masud Preum

Steganography is the task of concealing a message within a medium such that the presence of the hidden message cannot be detected. Beyond the standard scope of private-key steganography, steganography is also potentially interesting from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Aubrey Alston