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High Efficiency Quantum Image Steganography Protocol Based on ZZW Framework

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Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2021)

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This paper proposes an efficient quantum image steganography protocol based on Zhang Weiming, Zhang Xinpeng and Wang Shuozhong’s steganography framework (ZZW). Based on the high embedding efficiency of the classical ZZW steganography framework, the new protocol combined with the quantum carrier, not only greatly improves the embedding efficiency of the existing quantum image steganography protocols, but also has high security. In order to reflect the practicability of the new protocol, we also designed dedicated quantum circuits to embed and extract secret information. In addition, the simulation results based on Matlab also show that the new protocol not only has good imperceptibility, but also has very high embedding efficiency.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61373131, 61601358, 61303039, 61232016, 61501247), Sichuan Youth Science and Technique Foundation (No. 2017JQ0048), NUIST Research Foundation for Talented Scholars (2015r014), PAPD and CICAEET funds.

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  1. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, P. R. China

    Hanrong Sun & Zhiguo Qu

  2. Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, P. R. China

    Zhiguo Qu

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  1. Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Xingming Sun

  2. Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Xiaorui Zhang

  3. Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

    Zhihua Xia

  4. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Elisa Bertino

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Sun, H., Qu, Z. (2021). High Efficiency Quantum Image Steganography Protocol Based on ZZW Framework. In: Sun, X., Zhang, X., Xia, Z., Bertino, E. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Security. ICAIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12737. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78612-0_32

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