X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/HindawiJournalOfChaos.git/blobdiff_plain/361c59391688b55ec2afbb15ab479d17986b42f5..f5dfadd98093d3fb12f61c1b56c7e2c0b56a2a25:/article.tex diff --git a/article.tex b/article.tex index b5f65ab..af63053 100644 --- a/article.tex +++ b/article.tex @@ -34,7 +34,68 @@ \begin{abstract} -\begin{color}{red}TODO\end{color} +Information hiding schemes are studied +Spread-spectrum data-hiding techniques have been widely studied in recent years +under the scope of security. These techniques encompass several schemes, such as +Improved Spread Spectrum~(ISS), Circular Watermarking~(CW), and Natural +Watermarking~(NW). Some of these schemes have revealed various +security issues. On the contrary, it has +been proven in~\cite{Cayre2008} that the Natural Watermarking technique is +stego-secure. This stego-security is one of the security classes defined +in~\cite{Cayre2008}, where probabilistic models are used to +categorize the security of data hiding algorithms in the Watermark Only +Attack~(WOA) framework. + +We have explained in our previous research works~\cite{guyeux13:bc} +that any algorithm can be rewritten as an iterative +process, leading to the possibility to study its +topological behavior. As a concrete example, +we have shown that the security level of some information hiding algorithms +(of the spread-spectrum kind) can be studied into a +novel framework based on unpredictability, as it is understood in the mathematical +theory of chaos~\cite{guyeux13:bc}. +The key idea motivating our research works is that: \emph{if artificial intelligence (AI) +tools seem to have difficulties to deal with chaos, then steganalyzers (software based +on AI that try to separate original from stego-contents) may +be proven defective against chaotic information hiding schemes}. Our work +has thus constituted in showing theoretically that such chaotic schemes can be constructed. +We are not looking to struggle with best available information hiding techniques and +we do not focus on effective and operational aspects, as +our questioning are more locating in a conceptual domain. Among other things, we do +not specify how to chose embedding coefficients, but the way to insert the hidden +message in a selection of these ``least significant coefficient'' in an unpredictable +manner. To say this another +way, our intention is not to realize an hidden channel that does not appear as sleazy +to a steganalyzer, but to construct an information hiding scheme whose behavior cannot +be predicted: supposing that the adversary has anything (algorithm, possible embedding +coefficient, etc.) but the secret key, we want to determine if he can predict which coefficients +will be finally used, and in which order. To do so, a new class of security has been +introduced in~\cite{bg10b:ip}, namely the topological security. This new class can be used to study +some categories of attacks that are difficult to investigate in the existing +security approach. It also enriches the variety of qualitative and quantitative +tools that evaluate how strong the security is, thus reinforcing the confidence +that can be added in a given scheme. + +In addition of being stego-secure, we have proven in~\cite{gfb10:ip} that +Natural Watermarking (NW) technique is topologically secure. Moreover, this technique +possesses additional properties of unpredictability, namely, strong transitivity, +topological mixing, and a constant of sensitivity equal to $\frac{N}{2}$~\cite{Guyeux2012}. +However NW are not expansive, which is in our opinion problematic in the Constant-Message +Attack (CMA) and Known Message Attack (KMA) setups, when we +consider that the attacker has all but the embedding key~\cite{Guyeux2012}. +Since these initial investigations, our research works in that information hiding field have +thus consisted in searching more secure schemes than NW, regarding the +concerns presented in the first paragraph of this introduction. The objective +of this review paper is to list the results obtained by following such an approach. + +This article is organized as follows. Notations and terminologies are firstly recalled in +the next section. Then the formerly published $\mathcal{CIW}_1$ chaotic iteration based one-bit watermarking +process is recalled in detail in Section~\ref{sec:ciw1}. Its steganographic version $\mathcal{CIS}_2$ +is then explained in Section~\ref{sec:secrypt11}, while Section~\ref{di3sec} presents the +$\mathcal{DI}_3$ process, whose aims is to merge the two previous approaches. +This review article of chaotic iterations based information hiding algorithms +ends by a conclusion section containing intended future works. + \end{abstract} \input{IH/intro}