PepSteg: A Text Steganographic Approach based on Prime Embedding Position
摘要
The practice of concealing information within various mediums, especially on social media, is on the rise. This article explores an efficient text-based homogeneous steganographic technique utilizing prime indices of the cover text to deploy characters of the secret text. The binary form of the secret text is mapped to Unicode zero-width characters, appended at prime positions. This technique distributes secret text characters over the cover text from an arbitrary starting point, ensuring robustness and efficiency. With optimized chunks and a cyclic embedding nature, the proposed technique maintains the visual structure of the cover text. Experimental results demonstrate an 80% embedding capacity, comparable to state-of-the-art text steganographic approaches.