International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Assurance & Security (FIAS 2009) in conjunction with the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Network & System Security (NSS 2009)

 

Gold Coast, Queensland, AUSTRALIA, 19-21 October 2009.

 

Exploit Kashida Adding to Arabic e-Text for High Capacity Steganography

 

Ahmed Al-Nazer

Saudi Aramco, Dhahran

Saudi Arabia

ahmed.nazer@aramco.com 

Adnan Gutub

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

gutub@kfupm.edu.sa

 

 

 

 

Abstract—Steganography is the ability to hide information in a cover media such as text, and pictures. An improved approach is proposed to embed secret into Arabic text cover media using Kashida, an Arabic extension character.  The proposed approach is maximizing the use of Kashida to hide more information, represented in binary bits, in Arabic text cover media. A stego system has been developed based on this approach. After sufficient testing and evaluation, our system shows promising performance in terms of capacity. 

 

Keywords—text steganography, text watermarking, text hiding, Arabic text, maximizing capacity, Kashida