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The coverless information hiding with the help of mapping relationship has high capacity, but there is still a problem in which the secret message cannot find the mapping relationship and the process requires extra storage burden during the transmission. Therefore, on the basis of symmetric reversible watermarking, the paper introduces the two-level mechanism and novel arrangements to solve the problem of sufficient diversity of features and has better capacity and image quality as a whole. Besides, for the security of secret message, this paper designs a new encryption model based on Logistic mapping. This method only employs coverless information hiding of one carrier image to transmit secret message with the help of the two-level mechanism and look-up table. Reversible information hiding is applied to embed the generated location table on the original image so that ensures storage and security. 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