Perfectly Secure Steganography: Capacity, Error Exponents, and Code Constructions

DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.921684zbMATH Open1330.94052arXivcs/0702161OpenAlexW3121904864MaRDI QIDQ3604649FDOQ3604649

Authors: Ying Wang, Pierre Moulin 

Publication date: 24 February 2009

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An analysis of steganographic systems subject to the following perfect undetectability condition is presented in this paper. Following embedding of the message into the covertext, the resulting stegotext is required to have exactly the same probability distribution as the covertext. Then no statistical test can reliably detect the presence of the hidden message. We refer to such steganographic schemes as perfectly secure. A few such schemes have been proposed in recent literature, but they have vanishing rate. We prove that communication performance can potentially be vastly improved; specifically, our basic setup assumes independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.) covertext, and we construct perfectly secure steganographic codes from public watermarking codes using binning methods and randomized permutations of the code. The permutation is a secret key shared between encoder and decoder. We derive (positive) capacity and random-coding exponents for perfectly-secure steganographic systems. The error exponents provide estimates of the code length required to achieve a target low error probability. We address the potential loss in communication performance due to the perfect-security requirement. This loss is the same as the loss obtained under a weaker order-1 steganographic requirement that would just require matching of first-order marginals of the covertext and stegotext distributions. Furthermore, no loss occurs if the covertext distribution is uniform and the distortion metric is cyclically symmetric; steganographic capacity is then achieved by randomized linear codes. Our framework may also be useful for developing computationally secure steganographic systems that have near-optimal communication performance.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0702161

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24) Cryptography (94A60) Coding and information theory (compaction, compression, models of communication, encoding schemes, etc.) (aspects in computer science) (68P30)

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