English
Related papers

Related papers: Provably Secure Steganography Based on List Decodi…

200 papers

We propose a robust and provably secure image steganography framework based on latent-space iterative optimization. Within this framework, the receiver treats the transmitted image as a fixed reference and iteratively refines a latent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yanan Li , Zixuan Wang , Qiyang Xiao , Yanzhen Ren

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

We consider coverless steganography where a Large Language Model (LLM) is used to generate stego-texts in combination with arithmetic coding. An efficient method should embed secret bits in as few language tokens as possible while keeping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yu-Shin Huang , Peter Just , Hanyun Yin , Krishna Narayanan , Ruihong Huang , Chao Tian

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

Performance indicators characterizing modern steganographic techniques include capacity (i.e. the quantity of data that can be hidden in the cover medium), stego quality (i.e. artifacts visibility), security (i.e. undetectability), and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Alan Anwer Abdulla , Sabah A. Jassim , Harin Sellahewa

The rapid development of image generation models has facilitated the widespread dissemination of generated images on social networks, creating favorable conditions for provably secure image steganography. However, existing methods face…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yuang Qi , Kejiang Chen , Na Zhao , Zijin Yang , Weiming Zhang

This paper proposes an improved steganography approach for hiding text messages in lossless RGB images. The objective of this work is to increase the security level and to improve the storage capacity with compression techniques. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Ankit Chaudhary , J. Vasavada , J. L. Raheja , S. Kumar , M. Sharma

Steganography refers to the art of concealing secret messages within multiple media carriers so that an eavesdropper is unable to detect the presence and content of the hidden messages. In this paper, we firstly propose a novel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Zheng Li , Ge Han , Yunqing Wei , Shanqing Guo

Steganography embeds confidential data within seemingly innocuous communications. Provable security in steganography, a long-sought goal, has become feasible with deep generative models. However, existing methods face a critical trade-off…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yaofei Wang , Gang Pei , Kejiang Chen , Jinyang Ding , Chao Pan , Weilong Pang , Donghui Hu , Weiming Zhang

Steganography is the practice of encoding secret information into innocuous content in such a manner that an adversarial third party would not realize that there is hidden meaning. While this problem has classically been studied in security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Christian Schroeder de Witt , Samuel Sokota , J. Zico Kolter , Jakob Foerster , Martin Strohmeier

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

Image steganography plays a vital role in securing secret data by embedding it in the cover images. Usually, these images are communicated in a compressed format. Existing techniques achieve this but have low embedding capacity. Enhancing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Rohit Agrawal , Kapil Ahuja

Steganography is an information hiding technique for covert communication. The core issue in steganography design is the rate-distortion coding problem. Polar codes, which have been proven to achieve the rate-distortion bound for any binary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yujun Ji , Jinsheng Li , Ling Liu , Qi Cao , Tao Dai

In this paper, the authors propose a new algorithm to hide data inside image using steganography technique. The proposed algorithm uses binary codes and pixels inside an image. The zipped file is used before it is converted to binary codes…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Rosziati Ibrahim , Teoh Suk Kuan

We propose a simple universal (that is, distribution--free) steganographic system in which covertexts with and without hidden texts are statistically indistinguishable. The stegosystem can be applied to any source generating i.i.d.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Boris Ryabko , Daniil Ryabko

Linguistic steganography (LS) aims to embed secret information into a highly encoded text for covert communication. It can be roughly divided to two main categories, i.e., modification based LS (MLS) and generation based LS (GLS). Unlike…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Tianyu Yang , Hanzhou Wu , Biao Yi , Guorui Feng , Xinpeng Zhang

Steganographic protocols enable one to embed covert messages into inconspicuous data over a public communication channel in such a way that no one, aside from the sender and the intended receiver, can even detect the presence of the secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Aggelos Kiayias , Alexander Russell , Narasimha Shashidhar

The demand for keeping the information secure and confidential simultaneously has been progressively increasing. Among various techniques- Audio Steganography, a technique of embedding information transparently in a digital media thereby…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Satish Bhalshankar , Avinash K. Gulve

Data security is required when communications over untrusted networks takes place. Security tools such as cryptography and steganography are applied to achieve such objectives, but both have limitations and susceptible to attacks if they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Sherief H. Murad , Amr M. Gody , Tamer M. Barakat

Text steganography is a mechanism of hiding secret text message inside another text as a covering message. In this paper, we propose a text steganographic scheme based on color coding. This include two different methods: the first based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Juvet K. Sadié , Leonel Moyou Metcheka , René Ndoundam