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Steganalysis of HUGO steganography based on parameter recognition of syndrome-trellis-codes

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Highly Undetectable steGO (HUGO steganography) is a well-known image steganography method proposed in recent years. The security of HUGO steganography is analyzed in this paper, and a corresponding steganalysis method is proposed based on the blind coding parameters recognition. Firstly, the principle of covert communication based on HUGO steganography and the characteristics of the Syndrome-Trellis codes (STCs) used in HUGO are analyzed; and then the potential security risk of HUGO is pointed out; Secondly, based on the idea of the blind parameters recognition for channel coding, the submatrix parameter of STCs is recognized correctly, and thus the message embedded by HUGO can be extracted correctly by decode algorithm of STCs. A series of experimental results show that the proposed steganalysis method can not only detect the stego-images reliably, but also extract the embedded message correctly; these validated the existence of security flaw of HUGO steganography.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61379151, 61272489, 61302159, 61401512 and 61373020), the Excellent Youth Foundation of Henan Province of China (No. 144100510001), and the Foundation of Science and Technology on Information Assurance Laboratory (No. KJ-14-108).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Xiangyang Luo, Xiaofeng Song, Jicang Lu, Chunfang Yang & Fenlin Liu

  2. Zhengzhou Science and Technology Institute, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Xiangyang Luo, Xiaofeng Song, Jicang Lu & Fenlin Liu

  3. Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Xiaolong Li

  4. School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China

    Weiming Zhang

  5. Science and Technology on Information Assurance Laboratory, Beijing, 100072, China

    Chunfang Yang

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Luo, X., Song, X., Li, X. et al. Steganalysis of HUGO steganography based on parameter recognition of syndrome-trellis-codes. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 13557–13583 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2759-2

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