Text Cover Steganography Using Font Color of the Invisible Characters and Optimized Primary Color-intensities
Feno Heriniaina Rabevohitra, Yantao Li · 2019
Text cover steganography is concerned with using text support for hiding information. Despite its long and old history, the art of cover writing is still attracting the attention of researchers in the domain of information hiding. Unfortunately, only a few related works exist in terms of text-covered writing. We present a visual attack on the previous related work. Then, we use invisible characters to hide secret data within the text support. We further use a combination and variation of the three primary colors intensities to vehiculate the message when painting non-printing characters. The proposed algorithm makes use of the low-value color spaces to decrease the color variations of the embedded secret message. It also further strengthens the hiddenness of the non-printing characters even when replaced by visible characters.