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A Proposal of Digital Image Steganography and Forensics Based on the Structure of File Storage

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Steganography is a technology for transmitting secret messages in public channel by embedding secret information into a digital carrier. It has a wide range of applications in the Internet security thus has attracted great interests. Among all kinds of digital carriers, digital image has outstanding performance. To the best of our knowledge, the researches on image steganography mainly focus on the use of the feature of digital image in the spatial or frequency domain, while there are few researches on hiding information through the file format structure. Taking JPEG image standard as an example, this paper analyzes the file format structure as well as the compression procedure and reports a novel proposal of image steganography and forensics. The proposal uses the redundant channel between any marker segments in the JPEG format structure to embed the secret information. The validity of the proposal has been proved by experiments, and further study has shown that this proposal has no limitation on the hiding capacity and has good practicability.

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  1. Department of Computer Information and Cyber Security, Jiangsu Police Institute, Nanjing, 210031, Jiangsu, China

    Chen Liu

  2. Engineering Research Center of Electronic Data Forensics Analysis, Nanjing, 210031, Jiangsu, China

    Chen Liu

  3. Key Laboratory of Digital, Forensics of Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department, Nanjing, 210031, Jiangsu, China

    Chen Liu

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  1. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Qi Liu

  2. School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    Xiaodong Liu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Bo Chen

  4. School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, Tianjin, China

    Yiming Zhang

  5. Hechi Universtiy, Hechi, Guangxi, China

    Jiansheng Peng

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Liu, C. (2022). A Proposal of Digital Image Steganography and Forensics Based on the Structure of File Storage. In: Liu, Q., Liu, X., Chen, B., Zhang, Y., Peng, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 808. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6554-7_79

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