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Coverless Text Information Hiding Method Using the Frequent Words Distance

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Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2017)

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The attackers may discover the existence of the secret information or even get it by analyzing the cover’s statistical characteristics, changes of which often occur due to the embedding. In this paper, a novel coverless text information hiding method was proposed. By using the words rank map and the frequent words distance, normal texts containing the secret information could be retrieved from the text database, and will be sent to the receiver without any modification. Because the embedding is not needed, the proposed method could be able to escape from almost all state-of-the-art steganalysis methods.

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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61304208), Open Fund of Demonstration Base of Internet Application Innovative Open Platform of Department of Education (KJRP1402), Open Fund of China-USA Computer Science Research Center (KJR16239), Hunan Province Science And Technology Plan Project Fund (2012GK3120), Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Province Education Department (13CY003, 14B106), Changsha City Science and Technology Plan Program (K1501013-11), Hunan Normal University University-Industry Cooperation.

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    Jianjun Zhang

  2. College of Engineering and Design, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China

    Jianjun Zhang, Yicheng Xie, Lucai Wang & Haijun Lin

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  2. National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Taiwan

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  3. China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, Nanjing, China

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Zhang, J., Xie, Y., Wang, L., Lin, H. (2017). Coverless Text Information Hiding Method Using the Frequent Words Distance. In: Sun, X., Chao, HC., You, X., Bertino, E. (eds) Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10602. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68505-2_11

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