A Multi-Layer Arabic Text Steganographic Method Based on Letter Shaping

Abstract

Text documents are widely used, however, the text steganography is more difficult than other media because of a little redundant information. This paper presents a text steganography methodology appropriate for Arabic Unicode texts that do not use a normal sequential inserting process to overcome the security issues of the current approaches that are sensitive to steg-analysis. The Arabic Unicode text is kept within main unshaped letters, and the proposed method is used text file as cover text to hide a bit in each letter by reshaping the letters according to its position (beginning, middle, end of the word, or standalone), this hiding process is accomplished through multi-embedding layer where each layer contains all words with the same Tag detected using the POS tagger, and the embedding layers are selected randomly using the stego key to improve the security issues. The experimental result shows that the purposed method satisfied the hiding capacity requirements, improve security, and imperceptibility is better than currently developed approaches.

Review on feature-based method performance in text steganography

“…b. Security: The level of safety performance that avoids the third party that has no connection with the sender and the receiver in steganography process to detect the existence of hidden message that is embedded in the text [20,50]. c. Capacity: The quantity of data in the hidden message that is able to hide by embedding the hidden message in the text.…”