TWO TYPES OF NEW SUBLIMINAL CHANNELS

Two types of new subliminal channels are constructed respectively based on provable secure public key cryptosystems and identity recognition in some network applications. Research shows that there are some new characteristics which are in favor of covert communication in our constructions. It is hard to make the subliminal channels free, and the channels have large capacity and high transmission efficiency. We also point out that the hardness to make the channels free is disadvantageous to the warden who tries to thwart the covert communication.

Subliminal Channels in the NTRU and the Subliminal-Free Methods

The construetion and destruction of subliminal channel are important problems in the information hiding. The subliminal channel can send secret information without notice. Two subliminal-free methods named weak （strong） subliminal-free on public-key cryptosystem （PKC） are proposed in this paper using the combinatorial method. The first method can only free the subliminal information with any minor probability and the second can free all. Moreover, the ＂traitor problem＂ which is same as the model of the subliminal channel in PKC is given. Two subliminal channels are embedded in N-th degree truncated polynomial ring （NTRU） cryptosystem, and their subliminal-free methods are also be obtained by the action of surveillant.

Threshold Subliminal Channel Based on Designated Verifier Signature

The subliminal channel is used to send a secret message to an authorized receiver; the message cannot he discovered by any unauthorized receivers. Designated verifier signature （DVS） provide authentication of a message, we design a DVS scheme with message recovery mechanism and use it as a subliminal channel. In order to share a message among n users securely and allows t or more users can reconstruct the secret in dynamic groups, we combine both subliminal channel and （t, n） threshold cryptography. Then we proposed a threshold subliminal channel which can convey a subliminal message to a group of users based on message-recovery designated verifier signatures. Reconstructing the subliminal message relies on the cooperation of t or more users in the group and they can verify the validity of the subliminal message. Security and performance analysis show that the proposed scheme is secure and efficient.

A NOVEL APPROACH OF SECURE COMMUNICATION BASED ON THE TECHNIQUE OF SPEECH INFORMATION HIDING

The proposed secure communication approach adopts the proposed algorithm of Analysis-By- Synthesis （ABS） speech information hiding to establish a Secret Speech Subliminai Channel （SSSC） for speech secure communication over PSTN （Public Switched Telephone Network）, and employs the algorithm of ABS speech information extracting to recovery the secret information, This approach is more reliable, covert and securable than traditional and chaotic secure communication.