Application of Steganography for Anonymity through the Internet

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new chaotic iteration-based steganographic scheme designed to enhance online anonymity and privacy, ensuring secure, robust communication channels resistant to watermark-only attacks.

Contribution

It presents a novel steganographic method that is stego-secure and suitable for anonymous internet communication, with analysis of its security against steganalysis.

Findings

The scheme achieves high security against watermark-only attacks.

Steganalysis confirms robustness in real test environments.

Provides a secure, robust method for anonymous online communication.

Abstract

In this paper, a novel steganographic scheme based on chaotic iterations is proposed. This research work takes place into the information hiding security framework. The applications for anonymity and privacy through the Internet are regarded too. To guarantee such an anonymity, it should be possible to set up a secret communication channel into a web page, being both secure and robust. To achieve this goal, we propose an information hiding scheme being stego-secure, which is the highest level of security in a well defined and studied category of attacks called "watermark-only attack". This category of attacks is the best context to study steganography-based anonymity through the Internet. The steganalysis of our steganographic process is also studied in order to show it security in a real test framework.