Information Hiding of MS-Office Compound Document

Abstract:

Propose an information hiding method to embed information into the FIB, directory structure, short stream, Document Summary Information stream and Data stream of Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Experiment results show that the method has high volume of information hiding and good invisibility. The maximum information hiding rate can reach 30 percent. As the robustness of this algorithm is to be improved, the algorithm can be just applied to detect the change of the original document.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 605-607)
• Pages: 2587-2591
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.605-607.2587
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Geng Ming Zhu*, Xiao Gang Zhan, Xing Lan Zhou
• Keywords: Information Hiding (IH), MS-Office Document

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