Paper 2023/293
Searching for Gemstones: Flawed Stegosystems May Hide Promissing Ideas
, Advanced Technologies Institute, Advanced Technologies Institute, Advanced Technologies InstituteAbstract
The historical domain of information hiding is alternatively used nowadays for communication security. Maybe the oldest and certainly one of the most studied field that falls in this category is steganography. Within the current paper, we focus on image steganography techniques in the case of the JPEG format. We propose a corrected and optimized version of the J3 stegosystem which, to the best of our knowledge and as shown throughout the paper, may be considered a very good choice in terms of security and efficiency as compared to current solutions. We reconstruct the entire J3 algorithm (pre-processing, message insertion and extraction) and detail all the modifications. We also present implementation optimizations and cover all practical cases while still using the maximum image insertion capacity.
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. C2SI 2023
- Keywords
- Information hidingsteganographystegosystemimage steganographyJPEGsteganalysis
- Contact author(s)
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maimut diana @ gmail com
alexandra kelesidis @ dcti ro
ilona ciocan @ dcti ro - History
- 2023-02-28: approved
- 2023-02-27: received
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- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2023/293
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/293,
author = {Diana Maimut and Evgnosia-Alexandra Kelesidis and Ilona Teodora Ciocan},
title = {Searching for Gemstones: Flawed Stegosystems May Hide Promissing Ideas},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/293},
year = {2023},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/293}
}
