TANG Guang-ming; WANG Ya-di
This paper points the necessary conditions and main facts of information hiding security, and proposes the measurement guidelines of information hiding security. Based on the communications model of information hiding, it analyzes the security of information hiding both from the principle and threaten encountered, and gives out how all elements of the information hiding system influence its security, indicating that the securities of carrier message, hidden message and steganography key are necessary conditions of information hiding security, even the intensity of steganography key is its main fact, as imperceptibility, extractable resistance and robustness are its measurement guidelines in the view of resist attacks.