Novel Arabic e-Text Watermarking Supporting Partial Dishonesty Based on Counting-Based Secret Sharing

Nowadays, the proliferation done on information systems had led to an alarming increase in security breaches. This security trend is now viewed as an essential foundation in the success of the information systems platforms planning, development and administration stages. The ideal way to protect the integrity and ownership of information within the transmission are performed via watermarking. It generally embeds secret data in the intended e-text media for the user’s integrity proof purposes afterwards. The challenge comes in full verification as if parts of this watermarking data are corrupted. This work presents Arabic e-text watermarking supporting partial dishonesty situations benefiting from counting-based secret sharing. In this paper, we are utilizing the extension Arabic character "“Kashida” to serve for hiding the watermarking data. The process of hiding watermarking bits is considering full security, which is not to hide the secrets directly as previous references. This work uses the password to ignite counting-based secret sharing to generate the stream shares of watermarking hidden bits to be embedded. The research tests our proposed Arabic e-text watermarking approach using four existing methods of data hiding. The comparisons have been run on the Arabic benchmark of Imam Nawawi’s forty hadeeth as standard text statements (40 Prophet Hadiths) indicating interesting remarkable results and promising research contributions.