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A Layered Steganography Model Based on User Interactions

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Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2018)

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The aim of steganography is to put a secret into carriers and only be seen by participants. This paper proposes a layered steganography model which helps to simplify the steganography design. The steganography model enables the two communication parties to interact with each other, which enables the receiving end to get data by data prediction, and optimizes the steganography mechanism to take full advantage of the existing methods to implement multi-carriers steganography. Herein, the interactive steganography action is decomposed into three basic interactive procedures, and the embedding and extracting procedures are implemented via these basic interactions, in which texts, pictures, voices or videos are used as carriers. With the features of language diversification, common media, real-time in an instant message communication, the proposed steganography in this paper is flexible, secure and reliable.

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This work was supported by NSFC-General Technical Research Foundation Joint Fund of China under Grant No. U1536113.

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    Gao Quansheng & Wang Kaixi

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    Zhaoqing Pan

  3. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

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Quansheng, G., Kaixi, W. (2018). A Layered Steganography Model Based on User Interactions. In: Sun, X., Pan, Z., Bertino, E. (eds) Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11066. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00015-8_11

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