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International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communication

SSCC 2015: Security in Computing and Communications pp 265–276Cite as

Dual Stage Text Steganography Using Unicode Homoglyphs

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Text steganography is hiding text in text. A hidden text gets hidden in a cover text to produce a plain looking stego text. This plain looking stego text is posted as the message which no one suspects to contain anything concealed. Today, text messages are a common mode of communication over the internet and it is associated with a huge amount of traffic. Steganography is an added layer of protection that can be used for security and privacy. In this paper, we describe a text steganography approach that provides a good capacity and maintains a high difficulty of decryption. We make use of approaches of space manipulation, linguistic translation and Unicode homoglyphs in our algorithm. Our implementation is in Python. Also, we explain a parallel approach for hiding large hidden text messages in large cover text messages.

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  1. National Institute of Technology, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

    Sachin Hosmani, H. G. Rama Bhat & K. Chandrasekaran

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  1. Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

    Jemal H. Abawajy

  2. IBM Research-India, New Delhi, India

    Sougata Mukherjea

  3. Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala, India

    Sabu M. Thampi

  4. University of Murcia, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain

    Antonio Ruiz-Martínez

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Hosmani, S., Bhat, H.G.R., Chandrasekaran, K. (2015). Dual Stage Text Steganography Using Unicode Homoglyphs. In: Abawajy, J., Mukherjea, S., Thampi, S., Ruiz-Martínez, A. (eds) Security in Computing and Communications. SSCC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 536. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22915-7_26

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