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In this paper, a model of reversible data hiding in encrypted domain (RDH-ED) based on signal reconstruction is presented, in which homomorphic encryption is introduced to reconstruct the encrypted signal generated by non-expansible symmetric encryption (NSE). In this way, NSE guarantees the security of the original signal, homomorphic encryption with short-bit key is performed in signal reconstruction. Since the reconstructed encrypted signal is homomorphic, data hiding can be facilely achieved by using homomorphism. According to the proposed model, both homomorphic symmetric encryption and homomorphic public-key encryption can be adopted to reconstruct NSE-based signal. Meanwhile, homomorphism is not limited to additive homomorphism, and multiplicative homomorphism is also applicable. In addition, two RDH-ED methods using symmetric multiplication homomorphism and public-key addition homomorphism are devised, respectively. Experimental results are demonstrated to illustrate the superiority of the proposed methods.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62102101, No. U2001202, No. 62072480), the Doctoral Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University (No. 2021SDKYA101).
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Chen, B., Yin, X., Lu, W. et al. Reversible data hiding in encrypted domain by signal reconstruction. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 1203–1222 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-13266-4
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