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With the growth of the Internet and the advancements in modern communication systems, sending data over the Internet or other media is now a commonplace practice. Consequently, it has become an important issue to secure the confidentiality and integrity of data because the data are sent via the Internet as a primary method of communication. This paper proposes a steganographic method based on the vector quantization coding compression algorithm with elastic indicators, which also incorporates a keystream to enhance security. Our experimental results have shown that the proposed method performs more effectively compared to the method proposed by Lee et al. in 2013.
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This research was partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China under the Grant MOST 106-2221-E-015-001-, and Oriental Institute of Technology under the Grant 106-7-11-102.
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Huang, CT., Lin, LC., Sun, DE. et al. A security-based steganographic scheme in vector quantization coding between correlated neighboring blocks. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 3131–3151 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-5811-1
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