Coverless text steganography over social media based on IFF and HMAC&#x0002A;

ZHANG Xuan; LI Baobin; WANG Ning; ZHENG Lei

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7523/j.ucas.2025.032

Coverless text steganography over social media based on IFF and HMAC^*

ZHANG Xuan ,
LI Baobin ,
WANG Ning ,
ZHENG Lei

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1 School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China;
2 Beijing Institute of Electronics Technology and Application, Beijing, 100091 China

Received date: 2024-12-10

Revised date: 2025-05-07

Online published: 2025-05-26

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^*National Key Research and Development Program of China(6S2021002)

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Abstract

Coverless steganography methods possess better unreadable and invisible properties for information hiding, but many existing methods are difficult to apply in practice due to high storage overhead and the inadaptation to real-world communication environments. To address these issues, this article proposes a practical coverless text steganography method and builds a viable application in the Twitter environment. Compared with existing methods, the proposed method performs better in terms of success rate, ease of use, security, and capacity. It can adapt to various scenarios through a wide range of carrier type choices, better meeting the requirements of secret information transmission.

Key words： steganography; coverless; integer factorial factorizing; HMAC

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ZHANG Xuan , LI Baobin , WANG Ning , ZHENG Lei . Coverless text steganography over social media based on IFF and HMAC^*[J]. Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 0 : 6 -6 . DOI: 10.7523/j.ucas.2025.032

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