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Information is one of the most important resources in this world. Therefore, we must protect it from third parties. A typical method for protecting information contents is cryptography. We use cryptography to prevent secret information from leaking to third parties. However, we will use steganography to conceal the existence of information because cryptography cannot achieve this function. Many steganographic techniques have been also proposed as well as cryptography. In this paper, we propose a different type of steganography called misdirection steganography. Our steganography transfers two kinds of secret data, true secret data and decoy secret data, as data embedding into cover data, and the process embedding the true secret data depends on how to embed the decoy secret data, i.e., the information about embedding the decoy secret data is also required to extract the true secret data. Our aim is to transfer true secret data in secret by letting third parties pay attention to decoy secret data. In other words, misdirection in the proposed steganography techniques is caused by the fact that the decoy secret data protect the true secret data against third parties.
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Mihara, T. Misdirection steganography. Soft Comput 24, 16005–16010 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-020-05345-1
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