Secure Digital Steganography for ASCII Text Documents

Rafat, Khan Farhan; Sher, Muhammad

doi:10.1007/s13369-013-0574-5

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“…In current literature, algorithms can either target the PDF format directly, or exploit a form of ASCII steganography, which can then be converted from one texttype format to another. Rafat & Sher (Rafat and Sher, 2013)p r opose an ASCII based steganographic algorithm robust enough to allow conversion between MS Word and PDF files without losing any of the embedded content.…”

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Dismantling OpenPuff PDF steganography

Sloan

Hernández-Castro

2018

Digital Investigation

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Dismantling OpenPuff PDF steganography

Sloan

Hernández-Castro

2018

Digital Investigation

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“…Therefore, demand is growing for intelligence and multimedia security studies that involve not only encryption, but also covert communication whose essence lies in concealing data [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ]. Recently, information hiding or data hiding in digital texts, known as text hiding, has drawn considerable attention due to its extensive usage, and potential applications in the cybersecurity and network communication industries [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 5...…”

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“…The goal of watermarking is providing proof of ownership for the cover media against malicious attacks such as tampering, forgery, and plagiarism (e.g., the embedded watermark indicates the original owner). While, the aim of steganography is the invisible transmission of confidential information so that no one (except an intended recipient) can discover/encode it, i.e., steganography concerns concealing the fact that a medium contains secret data that is invisible/ indiscernible [ 1 , 3 , 41 ].…”

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Modern Text Hiding, Text Steganalysis, and Applications: A Comparative Analysis

Ahvanooey

Hou

et al. 2019

Entropy

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Modern text hiding is an intelligent programming technique which embeds a secret message/watermark into a cover text message/file in a hidden way to protect confidential information. Recently, text hiding in the form of watermarking and steganography has found broad applications in, for instance, covert communication, copyright protection, content authentication, etc. In contrast to text hiding, text steganalysis is the process and science of identifying whether a given carrier text file/message has hidden information in it, and, if possible, extracting/detecting the embedded hidden information. This paper presents an overview of state of the art of the text hiding area, and provides a comparative analysis of recent techniques, especially those focused on marking structural characteristics of digital text message/file to hide secret bits. Also, we discuss different types of attacks and their effects to highlight the pros and cons of the recently introduced approaches. Finally, we recommend some directions and guidelines for future works.

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“…In other words, watermarking aims to protect intellectual property of digital media against unauthorized copy or access by embedding a watermark (visible or invisible) in the cove media which can remain beside the data, and it can be used whenever there is any query about the originality of media (e.g., the hidden watermark refers to the original owner) [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Over the last two decades, many information hiding techniques have been proposed in terms of text watermarking and text steganography for copyright protection [11][12][13][14], proof of ownership [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], and copy control and authentication [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Although the aim of steganography is different, it also can be used for the copyright protection of digital texts like watermarking.…”

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A Comparative Analysis of Information Hiding Techniques for Copyright Protection of Text Documents

Ahvanooey

Shim

et al. 2018

Security and Communication Networks

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With the ceaseless usage of web and other online services, it has turned out that copying, sharing, and transmitting digital media over the Internet are amazingly simple. Since the text is one of the main available data sources and most widely used digital media on the Internet, the significant part of websites, books, articles, daily papers, and so on is just the plain text. Therefore, copyrights protection of plain texts is still a remaining issue that must be improved in order to provide proof of ownership and obtain the desired accuracy. During the last decade, digital watermarking and steganography techniques have been used as alternatives to prevent tampering, distortion, and media forgery and also to protect both copyright and authentication. This paper presents a comparative analysis of information hiding techniques, especially on those ones which are focused on modifying the structure and content of digital texts. Herein, various text watermarking and text steganography techniques characteristics are highlighted along with their applications. In addition, various types of attacks are described and their effects are analyzed in order to highlight the advantages and weaknesses of current techniques. Finally, some guidelines and directions are suggested for future works.

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Secure Digital Steganography for ASCII Text Documents

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

Dismantling OpenPuff PDF steganography

Dismantling OpenPuff PDF steganography

Modern Text Hiding, Text Steganalysis, and Applications: A Comparative Analysis

A Comparative Analysis of Information Hiding Techniques for Copyright Protection of Text Documents

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