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Text coverless information hiding based on compound and selection of words

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In recent years, many researchers focus on the coverless information hiding because it realizes secret communication without modification by retrieving carriers including secret information (SI). However, the design of a coverless information hiding algorithm is very difficult, which mainly involves three aspects: (1) How to promote the efficiency of retrieving under the big data environment? (2) How to extract the SI in the received natural texts? (3) How to improve the hiding capacity (HC)? This paper proposes a novel text coverless information hiding algorithm based on the compound and selection of words, in which the reverse index is created to promote the efficiency of retrieving firstly. Then, Chinese characters are converted into binary numbers, which will serve as the location tags to determine the position of SI in the texts. Finally, combine the frequently used words and improve the HC according to the frequencies. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has a significant improvement in HC compared to the existing text coverless information hiding algorithms. In addition, the efficiency and security of the proposed algorithm are also proved.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61502242, U1536206, 61672294, 61602253, 61373133, 61232016, U1405254), Jiangsu Basic Research Programs Natural Science Foundation (BK20150925), Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (2014r026sharp), Open Fund of Demonstration Base of Internet Application Innovative Open Platform of Department of Education (KJRP1402), Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) Fund, Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET) Fund, National Ministry of Science and Technology Special Project Research GYHY201301030, 2013DFG12860, BC2013012.

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  1. Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

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

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Chen, X., Chen, S. Text coverless information hiding based on compound and selection of words. Soft Comput 23, 6323–6330 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-018-3286-7

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