Large-capacity and Receiver Authenticable Generative Image Steganography

Abstract

Diffusion-based generative image steganography converts the input single secret image into noise, and generates the stego image with it serves as the initial noise. Nevertheless, existing methods exhibit three severe limitations: (1) the fixed hiding space constrains their capacity to one secret image; (2) severe inter-secret interference arising from substantial information divergence among multiple secret images while concealing them within a shared hiding space; (3) security risks owing to the absence of the receiver-side verification mechanism. To systematically address these issues, this paper proposes a novel **Receiver Authenticable Generative Image Steganography framework** based on diffusion models. We introduce a **Dynamic Cover Selection and Optimization Engine** to adaptively allocate suitable hiding spaces for different secret images. This design permits the concealment of disparate secret images (or fragments of a single image) into separate spaces, enabling dynamic multi-image concealment while effectively preventing inter-secret interference and expanding capacity through the enlarged hiding spaces. Furthermore, a **Signature Authentication Controller** cryptographically signs the secret container after concealing and verifies it before extraction, ensuring secure receiver isolation and precise localization of the secret data container. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves superior secure multi-receiver isolation and high-performance generative image steganography with large capacity.