The Survey on Applications of Information Hiding Technology in E-Commerce Security

The booming e-commerce industry is suffering from serious information security problems. As a potential and effective security solution, information hiding technology has been widely applied in many fields and drawn unprecedented attention. Based on our research, this paper provides a survey on the current state of the art information hiding technology, mainly covering the fundamental concepts, basic model, the recent progress of information hiding methods and its applications in e-commerce security sector. At last, possible research and development trends of information hiding technology are discussed.