On the Sharing-Based Model of Steganography

摘要

Steganography has long been considered as a way of hiding the fact of secret communication. However, the fact that a message sender and a receiver communicated with each other is seldom protected. It can be dangerous because they often have very secret relationship. Noticeably, in recent two years some researchers respectively proposed robust and secure steganographic schemes which realize dependable steganography in the lossy channel of social media without degrading the security and capacity, and more relevant technologies, such as robust steganographic coding and fast steganography, were also proposed. In this review, the sharing-based model of steganography implied by social media and promoted by both the emerging advanced robust steganography and fast steganography is formally presented and compared with the dominating prisoner-warden model. It is shown that designing steganography under the sharing-based model can protect the fact of communication and the sender-receiver relationship instead of merely the fact of secret communication, improving the overall security of steganographic systems.