Complex Domain Approach for Reversible Data Hiding and Homomorphic Encryption: General Framework and Application to Dispersed Data

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contents Ensuring the trustworthiness of data from distributed and resource-constrained environments, such as Wireless Sensor Networks or IoT devices, is critical. Existing Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) methods for scalar data suffer from low embedding capacity and poor intrinsic mixing between host data and watermark. This paper introduces Hiding in the Imaginary Domain with Data Encryption (H[i]dden), a novel framework based on complex number arithmetic for simultaneous information embedding and encryption. The H[i]dden framework offers perfect reversibility, in-principle unlimited watermark size, and intrinsic data-watermark mixing. The paper further introduces two protocols: H[i]dden-EG, for joint reversible data hiding and encryption, and H[i]dden-AggP, for privacy-preserving aggregation of watermarked data, based on partially homomorphic encryption. These protocols provide efficient and resilient solutions for data integrity, provenance and confidentiality, serving as a foundation for new schemes based on the algebraic properties of the complex domain.
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spellingShingle Complex Domain Approach for Reversible Data Hiding and Homomorphic Encryption: General Framework and Application to Dispersed Data
Megias, David
Cryptography and Security
Ensuring the trustworthiness of data from distributed and resource-constrained environments, such as Wireless Sensor Networks or IoT devices, is critical. Existing Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) methods for scalar data suffer from low embedding capacity and poor intrinsic mixing between host data and watermark. This paper introduces Hiding in the Imaginary Domain with Data Encryption (H[i]dden), a novel framework based on complex number arithmetic for simultaneous information embedding and encryption. The H[i]dden framework offers perfect reversibility, in-principle unlimited watermark size, and intrinsic data-watermark mixing. The paper further introduces two protocols: H[i]dden-EG, for joint reversible data hiding and encryption, and H[i]dden-AggP, for privacy-preserving aggregation of watermarked data, based on partially homomorphic encryption. These protocols provide efficient and resilient solutions for data integrity, provenance and confidentiality, serving as a foundation for new schemes based on the algebraic properties of the complex domain.
title Complex Domain Approach for Reversible Data Hiding and Homomorphic Encryption: General Framework and Application to Dispersed Data
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03770