Title
Digital-Invisible-Ink Data Hiding Based on Spread-Spectrum and Quantization Techniques
Abstract
A novel data-hiding methodology, denoted as digital invisible ink (DII), is proposed to implement secure steganography systems. Like the real-world invisible ink, secret messages will be correctly revealed only after the marked works undergo certain prenegotiated manipulations, such as lossy compression and processing. Different from conventional data-hiding schemes where content processing or compression operations are undesirable, distortions caused by prenegotiated manipulations in DII-based schemes are indispensable steps for revealing genuine secrets. The proposed scheme is carried out based on two important data-hiding schemes: spread-spectrum watermarking and frequency-domain quantization watermarking. In some application scenarios, the DII-based steganography system can provide plausible deniability and enhance the secrecy by taking cover with other messages. We show that DII-based schemes are indeed superior to existing plausibly deniable steganography approaches in many aspects. Moreover, potential security holes caused by deniable steganography systems are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/TMM.2008.921733
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
Data encapsulation,Spread spectrum communication,Quantization,Ink,Steganography,Liquids,Heating,Watermarking,Writing,Data security
Digital watermarking,Steganography tools,Invisible ink,Cryptography,Computer science,Computer security,Information hiding,Artificial intelligence,Computer engineering,Steganography,Computer vision,Lossy compression,Steganalysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
4
1520-9210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.41
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chun-Hsiang Huang113812.05
Shang-Chih Chuang2282.50
Ja-ling Wu31569168.11