A Plug-and-Play Method for Improving Imperceptibility and Capacity in Practical Generative Text Steganography
Kaiyi Pang

TL;DR
This paper introduces FreStega, a plug-and-play method that reconstructs language model distributions to enhance imperceptibility and capacity in generative text steganography, making hidden communication more secure and efficient.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel distribution-reforming approach for generative linguistic steganography that improves imperceptibility and increases embedding capacity without sacrificing text quality.
Findings
Improves imperceptibility of stego text in practical scenarios.
Increases steganographic capacity by 15.41%.
Maintains high quality of generated stegotext.
Abstract
Linguistic steganography embeds secret information into seemingly innocuous text to safeguard privacy under surveillance. Generative linguistic steganography leverages the probability distributions of language models (LMs) and applies steganographic algorithms during generation, and has attracted increasing attention with the rise of large language models (LLMs). To strengthen security, prior work has focused on distribution-preserving steganographic algorithms that minimize the gap between stego sampling and random sampling from the model. However, their reliance on model distributions, which often deviate from real-world cover texts, leads to limited imperceptibility when facing steganalysis detectors in practical settings. Moreover, LLM distributions tend to be more deterministic, reducing entropy and thus lowering embedding capacity. In this paper, we propose a plug-and-play method…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques · Digital Media Forensic Detection · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
